Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lackenbach Siegel Marzullo Aronson & Greenspan
  • Patent number: 5651477
    Abstract: The constant quantity injection valve (1) comprises a valve housing (2), a first and a second valve (3, 4) respectively including valve pins (8, 9) and ring-like packings (10, 11), and a measuring chamber (5) formed in the valve housing between the two valves. The valve housing has a gas blow-out passage extending along its axis. The individual valves are located on the upstream and downstream sides (7a, 7b) of the blow-out passage, and the valve pins are axially movable and respectively include closing sections (12, 13), opening sections (14, 15) and inclined sections (16, 17) connecting the two sections. The ring-like packings are made of an elastic material with a rubber hardness of 90.degree. or above, the three sections of each of the valve pins being detachably mounted on the peripheral wall of the blow-out passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Tansan Gas Company Limited
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Ichiro Fumino
  • Patent number: 5652440
    Abstract: A GaAs-InGaAs high electron mobility transistor includes: a GaAs substrate; a GaAs buffer layer overlaying on the GaAs substrate; a graded InGaAs channel overlaying on the GaAs layer; a GaAs spacer layer overlaying on the graded InGaAs channel layer; a .delta.-doping layer overlaying on the GaAs spacer layer; a GaAs cap layer overlaying on the .delta.-doping layer; drain and source terminals overlaying on the GaAs cap layer and contacting the graded InGaAs channel layer; and a gate terminal overlaying on the GaAs cover layer and located between the drain terminal and the source terminal. One kind of modified transistor uses the symmetric channel .delta.-doping structure to replace the graded InGaAs channel of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: National Science Council
    Inventor: Chun-Yen Chang
  • Patent number: 5651169
    Abstract: Although the conventional continuous riveting machine was able to use exclusively a special blind rivet having a longer core-stem than that of the standard type, the continuous riveting machine according to the present invention is able to use the standard blind rivet and also able to recover separately torn core rivet stems and a blind rivet-holding belt made of plastic material enabling the supply of blind rivets in series. When a lower piston 600 descends in a jaw cylinder 400, a nose piece 620 integrated in one piece with the lower piston 600 also descends while bending downwardly plastic upper and lower tabs of the blind rivet-holding belt, and holding the blind rivet. Torn-core-stems are absorbed and stored in a torn core rivet stems storing case installed on the upper portion of the jaw cylinder by applying vacuum air absorbing force generated in a vacuum ejector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: OPT Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Ohuchi, Masaru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5649799
    Abstract: An apparatus for securing a binder to the spine of a cover with rivets. A pair of rivet supports holding two rivets in a support position over a pair of anvils is movable between release and support positions with a biasing spring returning the rivet support to the release position. A drive shaft moves the pair of rivets in a downward vertical direction terminating in a downward stroke so as to drive the plain ends of the rivets through the cover spine and the binder. Drive linkage connected to a horizontal rotatable drive bar activated by a lever activates the drive shafts to a limited lowered position and a raised position. The anvils receive the plain ends of the rivets and make the plain ends of the rivets into second heads upon termination of the downward stroke of the drive shafts whereby the rivets secure the binder and the cover spine. Keepers prevent lateral and transverse movement of the binder and and cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: C-Lock, Inc.
    Inventors: Theo A. Constantine, Fred W. Berg
  • Patent number: 5649599
    Abstract: Penetrating nozzles are disclosed for first penetrating standard commercial and residential building materials to form a relatively small entrance hole or opening and subsequently delivering water to the area to cool off superheated gases. Different water dispersion attachments may be used, including a spiral or screw-type attachment for providing a mist or fog to the area or straight stream nozzles for directing a stream of water in directions either parallel to the axis of the nozzle or at an angle 90.degree. thereto. The nozzles include a protector cap at the leading axial end thereof which is provided with a tip suitable for battering the surfaces or barrier and punch a hole through it. The protector tip is retained on the tubular attachment until the protector tip has penetrated the barrier and has been placed on the other side, at which time the application of water under pressure to the elongate dial causes the protector tip to be cast off or ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: The Catanese Family Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Anthony T. Catanese, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5642094
    Abstract: Braking expectation control, based upon manual selection by the driver of the vehicle plus automatic activation (including override of the manual selection) operates to give the following motorist information concerning the type-of-stop. Blinking yellow lights warn of an easy slowdown such as occurs when coasting with the accelerator free. Red stop warning lights burn brightly for a standard stop, as is the case for currently manufactured vehicles. For the panicstop, however, all rear lights come on--red brakelights, red or yellow turn signals together as hazard warnings, hazard lights if separate from the turn signal lights, backup lights--followed by blinking yellow for a continuing warning. The automatic control takes sensor inputs for accelerator-free, foot-on-brake, brake pressure at two levels, stop and panicstop, and includes a timer to determine whether the brake activity is a tap or a more serious stop or panicstop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Inventor: Frank Marcella
  • Patent number: 5642099
    Abstract: A light scattering type smoke detector arranged such that even if the range in which light from an LED is emitted has a dispersion, a labyrinth member 90 in the light emitting range has no edge or only a predetermined labyrinth member exist therein. The labyrinth member 90 is preferably formed by a single plate larger than the other labyrinth members 9. The edges of the labyrinth members 9 are preferably formed to a curved surface or chamfered, and the dispersion of the 0 point of a detection output is reduced and the level of the 0 point of the detection signal is lowered to thereby accurately detect light scattered by smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nagashima
  • Patent number: 5634644
    Abstract: A constant section gasket based on elastomer, plastic, or like material, the gasket comprising a constant section element that is extruded or molded in at least one material selected from elastomers, plastics, thermoplastic elastomers, and the like materials. The gasket also includes a sole-piece for fixing on a support(s), in particular a metal part of car bodywork, with the sole-piece being fixed thereto by means of an induction heating machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventor: Henri Guillon
  • Patent number: 5632629
    Abstract: A surface mounted connector for surface mounting on a generally flat conductive surface of a printed circuit board includes a base which has a generally flat surface suitable for contact with an attachment to a conductive surface of the printed circuit board. An electrical contact, which may be in the form of a pin, post, IDC, test point, or receptacle, has at least one portion projecting from the base in a direction normal to the base. At least one bent intermediate connecting portion integrally connects the contact to the base. The contact, base and the bent intermediate connecting portions are all formed from a generally flat sheet of conductive material. A blank for the surface mounted connector, as well as a rolled strip of connectors is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Zierick Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Janos Legrady
  • Patent number: 5628218
    Abstract: This flaw-treatment apparatus is able to prevent an increase in the number of flaw cuts by detecting false flaw-detection, and prevent the occurrence of die marks. For attaining these effects, this apparatus is comprised of: detection of the surface flaws of the wire-shaped metal by applying a flaw-detecting device, cutting and removal of the detected flaws by applying a flaw-cutting device, drawing of the flaw-free wire-shaped metal by applying a drawing device, spraying of lubricant on the wire-shaped metal, and removal of excess lubricant together with dust, and further grinding of the flaw-cut portion of the wire-shaped metal for obtaining adequate surface roughness before grinding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Koshuha Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinobu Yamada, Toshiyuki Furutani, Norihiro Oda
  • Patent number: 5623253
    Abstract: A projected beam-type smoke detector of the type in which a light emitter having a light emitting element is separately mounted from a light receiver having a light pickup element in order to detect a fire by an attenuation in the level of light which the light receiver receives from the light emitter, attenuation being due to the presence of smoke between the light emitter and the light receiver. The detector, comprising the light receiver, a cover status sensor for sensing the closing or opening state of a cover that is closed or opened to allow adjustments such as optical axis adjustment, sensitivity setting for light input and the like, and a control block for controlling each section of the light receiver. The control block sets the adjustment mode to each section of the light receiver when the control block receives a cover open-state signal indicative of the opening of the cover from the cover status sensor. The adjustment mode is automatically set to each section of the light receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Hockiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Narumiya, Mariko Ishida
  • Patent number: 5622039
    Abstract: Machine for manufacturing uniform impedance communication cables for high frequency use includes a series of staggered double twisting units or heads each of which supports two reels wound with single wire elements or conductors, and a constant tension tape dispenser. The wire elements from the reels as well as the tape from the tape dispenser are simultaneously unwound and guided to the ends of the rotating bows of the twisting units at which points the individual wire elements or conductors are twisted about each other and the tape is applied to the twisted wire pair to fix and maintain the spatial integrity of the twisted wires relative to each other. Each twisting unit rotated at slightly different speeds to assure different lay lengths for each twisted pair. The twisted pairs are guided downstream by a capstan and all of the twisted and taped wire sets are secured to each other by a pre-twisting and taping operation before the composite cable is wound onto a rotating take-up unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Ceeco Machinery Manufacturing Limited
    Inventor: Walter Thompson
  • Patent number: 5621475
    Abstract: The present invention provides a more reliable circuit for judging the existence of television image signals. A circuit for judging the existence of television image signals by counting the number of edges of the synchronous signals of a composite synchronous signals for a certain period, and judging the existence of TV image signals, wherein a mask timer circuit which masks signals generated following the synchronous signals for a certain period after the composite synchronous signal is detected, is installed before a synchronous counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Irie
  • Patent number: 5609569
    Abstract: A dressing is described for covering the axilla and upper torso areas of a patient. The dressing is formed of a sheet of conformable material and includes a rear back portion which covers at least part of the patient's back. The rear back portion forms a first sleeve portion. At least one front chest portion is provided which covers at least a part of the patient's chest, the front chest portion also forming a second sleeve portion. The first and second sleeve portions together form a generally fitted body dressing which includes at least a partial length of sleeve to receive an arm of the patient. Hook and loop fastener tapes, which are preferably color coded, are used to releasably secure the first and second sleeve portions and for selectively opening the sleeve to expose the shoulder, axilla and upper torso of the patient. In this manner, the dressing can be quickly and safely placed on and removed from the patient with minimal inconvenience and trauma to the injuries sustained by the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Exu-Dry Wound Care Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin O'D. Offenhartz
  • Patent number: 5605430
    Abstract: A feeder and method are disclosed for individually dispensing surface-mount contacts in a strip of tab-connected contacts on a pick-and-place machine having a pick-up member and pick-up station actuator for actuating the feeder when the pick-and-place machine is ready for pick-up surface-mount contact oriented along a predetermined direction at the pick-up station. The strip of contacts are fed from a roll or spool and the end received within a guide, with the strip being advanced to position the end contact or connector to be mounted suspended beyond the guide. When the component is ready to be mounted, it is sheared or severed at a connecting tab from the strip to free it. The component is temporarily held in place while the freed component is moved towards the vacuum pick-up nozzle of the pick-and-place machine, and released at such time that the pick-up member of vacuum nozzle has sufficiently engaged the contact to enable it to pick up the contact and remove it from the pick-up station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Zierick Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Janos Legrady
  • Patent number: 5605536
    Abstract: An improved transdermal drug applicator for application to a living body for the migration of at least one medicament through the skin into the blood stream embodying at least two electrode elements forming the applicator and with the electrodes separated from each other by insulating means. A reservoir means, in at least one of said electrode elements of said applicator, containing said medicament; and a circuit, including a power source, for supplying electric power to said electrodes and such reservoir means. Suitable cover means partially enclosed at least said reservoir means, and adhesive means affixes the applicator to the skin, so as to complete an electrical circuit through the skin when the applicator is affixed thereto, thus creating at least one physico/chemical mass transfer phenomenon which causes said medicament to migrate through the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Drug Delivery Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Sibalis
  • Patent number: 5604136
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light converter with an LED and an amorphous-silicon pin heterojunction diode includes steps of a) preparing an LED structure on one side of a substrate as a light-emitting unit; b) forming a buffer layer on the other side of the substrate; and c) depositing a pin (positive type/intrinsic type/negative type) diode on the buffer layer as a light-absorbing unit this blue/red light converter, and the value of rise time obtained under 1 kf.OMEGA. is 112.5 .mu.sec. The present invention desirably lower the cost, simplify the preparation process, and avoids degrading features of a light converting unit by over-heating during the process of preparing the pin diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: National Science Council
    Inventors: Yean-Kuen Fang, Kuen-Hsien Lee, Yaw-Jou Yang, Lee-Ching Kuo
  • Patent number: 5597572
    Abstract: A vaccine effective against infection caused by Group B Neisseria meningitidis microorganism is provided which comprises a purified protein antigenic complex weighing from 65 to 95 kDa, vesicles, and capsular polysaccharide. This vaccine is extracted from the cell membranes of the live microorganisms using detergent and enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Centro Nacional De Biopreparados
    Inventors: Concepcion C. Huergo, Victoriano G. Sierra Gonzalez, Maria M. Gutierrez Vazquez, Gonzalo Bisset Jorrin, Luis G. Garcia Imia, Gisela de la Caridad Puentes Rizo, Maria del Carmen Sampedro Herrera, Franklin Sotolongo Padron, Eloisa X. Le Riverend Morales, Manuel A. Galguera Dominguez
  • Patent number: 5596821
    Abstract: A utility article attachable to footwear, including, for example, shoes, sneakers, skates, and the like, includes a central, generally planar portion which can be removably secured to the item of footwear by a pair of holes or elongate slots through which the ends of shoe laces or attachment straps can pass and be connected in a conventional way. Securing the central portion to the item of footwear causes two lateral or side portions to press or abut against the item of footwear. An embodiment is disclosed in which the side portions include pockets or compartments for storing personal articles, such as a key, money or identification. When storage pockets are provided, flaps are used to selectively open or close the same. Opening of the flaps provides access to the compartments in the pockets and cup portions are preferably provided which provide a cavity or recess when the flaps are opened to facilitate the placement of a finger underneath the personal item and its removal from the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Inventor: Alan J. Solo
  • Patent number: D378382
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventors: Steven Ellman, Fredric Ellman, Julius Ellman