Patents Represented by Law Firm Mallinckrodt & Mallinckrodt
  • Patent number: 6389736
    Abstract: A fishing bobber design of elongate construction, having internal unattached rolling weights, so that the bobber will remain in stable horizontal position or in stable vertical position upon the body of water. The nibble of a fish upon the bait tips the bobber from stable horizontal position to a very noticeable stable vertical position, in which it remains until again placed into the stable horizontal position upon the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Inventor: Gary L. Frost
  • Patent number: 6383215
    Abstract: An intravascular stent reduces the risk of restenosis due to stent implantation by using 17beta-estradiol as a vessel healing substance after implantation of an intravascular stent. The 17beta-estradiol coats at least a portion of the surface of the stent and is adhered to the stent with an adhesive layer containing DLC (“diamond-like carbon”). 17beta-estradiol inhibits the growth of smooth muscle cells and stimulates the re-endothelialization after implantation of an intravascular stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventor: Norbert Sass
  • Patent number: 6379296
    Abstract: A lighting device, particularly suited for medical examination purposes and suited to be attached to a medical examination device such as a vaginal speculum, includes a power source and a flexible, preferably malleable arm extending from the power source with a nondirectional light source at its end. The arm has a small diameter allowing it to be used with medical instruments without blocking the viewing area provided by such instruments and allowing it to be inserted through tubes commonly used in medical, dental, or veterinary procedures. For medical, dental, or veterinary use, the outside temperature of the light source is controlled to keep such temperature below a temperature that would damage living tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Inventor: Richard W. Baggett
  • Patent number: 6364256
    Abstract: A roof top pipe support includes a base having a substantially flat bottom to rest on the roof. At least one, and preferably a pair of raised portions provide a pair of stud-receiving holes in the base to receive and direct studs, preferably threaded studs, upwardly from the base. The raised portion also can receive and support a pipe supporting roller. A pipe support such as a pipe supporting roller or a strut also can extend between upwardly extending studs and be adjustably secured to the studs so the height of the pipe support can be adjusted. Either pipe support can be used depending upon conditions and the height of the support needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Miro Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Neider, Nathan M. Sargent
  • Patent number: 6363924
    Abstract: An arrow rest for use with archery bows includes an arrow supporting launcher that provides vertical movement to dampen any up and down movement of the arrow shaft when it is shot from the bow, such as up and down vibrational movement which occurs as a result of using a mechanical arrow release aid. The launcher includes a V-groove to support and guide the arrow. The rest also includes a pair of flippers which extend generally upwardly and in the direction of arrow travel along opposite sides of the arrow shaft supported on the launcher to lessen the chance that the arrow shaft will slide off the launcher. Either feature of the rest can be used alone without the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Inventor: Charles C. Adams, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6361023
    Abstract: Trailer jack attachment assemblies which do not extend below the lowermost frame member of the trailer body so as to avoid increasing obstruction from roads and rough terrain. Attachment is made to the trailer frame without destroying its structural integrity. Cross-braces between laterally opposite attachments minimize localized twisting of individual frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Inventor: Derrick C. Peavler
  • Patent number: 6357266
    Abstract: A latch cover is secured over a latch to be protected by the lock which locks the latch, and the latch cover restricts access to the latch to reduce the chance of tampering with the latch. The latch cover includes a cover plate sized to cover a substantial portion of the latch and lock when held in a position in front of the latch. Holding plates extend from the cover plate over the sides of the latch where a lock member of a lock locking the latch extend. Such lock member extends from the opposite sides of the latch and through holes in the holding plates to secure the cover in place. Side plates preferably extend between the holding plates to form a box structure to more fully cover the latch. Notches in the side plates receive items extending into or from the latch and help position the cover. The cover allows access to the lock so the lock and latch can be opened when desired and the cover removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Inventor: Randy C. Van Buren
  • Patent number: 6354657
    Abstract: A rocking chair and chaise lounge of the type having an elongate rectangular longitudinally flexible seat supported at opposite ends by a pair of oppositely inclined, diagonally disposed frames. Each frame is pivotally interconnected with the other at the sides of each intermediate the ends thereof by pairs of upper and of lower siderails with one frame nesting within the other such that the chair may be folded into a compact unit for storage. An optional fold-out footrest nests within the other frames to act as a back support when the chair is used without the footrest deployed and which forms a chaise lounge with an optional extra-long backrest to footrest seat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventors: Gregory G. Nelson, Lynn H. Nelson
  • Patent number: 6349904
    Abstract: An adjustable, removable, strap device primarily for use in bundling and holding electrical cords and cables, such as from office equipment or kitchen appliances, in a compact position above the floor or kitchen counter. Such compact, elevated position in an office helps to prevent tripping and in a kitchen keeps the cords off of the wet counter to reduce the risk of electrical shock, and which also provides a neat, tidy appearance. One embodiment of the device includes a flexible strap member having a plurality of headed pins at one end and a plurality of mating holes in the opposite end thereof. The strap member is doubled over on itself and the pins engaged in the holes to form a loop around the cables with the strap member permanently attached to the wall such as by a nail or double-sided adhesive tape, or removably other structure by means of hook and loop type fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Inventor: Arthur A. Polad
  • Patent number: 6347782
    Abstract: An axial actuator for actuating a valve by rotating the shaft of the valve includes an outer enclosure forming an interior space having an inner enclosure therein. A piston is linearly moveable within the interior space of the outer housing to divide such interior space into two chambers, one of which includes the inner enclosure. A rotation device is positioned at least partially within the inner enclosure and is interconnected with the piston for rotating the valve shaft in response to linear movement of the piston. The rotation device preferably includes a rotation bevel gear having a hub adapted to receive the valve shaft to be rotated and compound pinion gears each with a bevel pinion gear which mates with the rotation bevel gear and a spur pinion gear which mates with racks which extend from the piston. Movement of the piston causes movement of the racks which rotate the compound pinion gears. This, in turn, rotates the rotation pinion gear and the valve shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Inventor: Ajit Singh Gill
  • Patent number: 6346697
    Abstract: In an image resolving detector arrangement, an image of an object scene is generated by an imaging optical system. Radiation from a respective one of several adjacent image elements of an image area associated with the detector element is directed consecutively onto each of the detector elements by an image element selection device. Herein the image element selection device is formed by a micro-light stop raster, which is arranged in an image plane and moveable step by step in this image plane, and which, in each position, allows only radiation from a part of an image area associated to a detector element to pass onto the detector element. Thereby, the resolution of the image resolving detector arrangement is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Krogmann, Hans Dieter Tholl
  • Patent number: 6338789
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for treating water by means of an electric field. An anode and a cathode are arranged in a treatment chamber. Seed crystals are deposited on the anode and are stripped therefrom to be carried along with the water, which cause crystallization thereon of carbonates contained in the water. Thereby formation of boiler scale, when the water is heated, is reduced. The water from the treatment chamber is exposed to another electric field in an aftertreatment chamber for a dwell time longer than the dwell time in the treatment chamber. Thereby, the growth of the seed crystals is enhanced. The efficiency of a treatment chamber with aftertreatment is higher than the efficiency of the treatment chamber alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Hans Sasserath & Co., KG
    Inventor: Willi Hecking
  • Patent number: 6337635
    Abstract: The activation and deactivation of an outdoors, hose faucet-mounted valve unit to control the flow of water through a standard garden hose with attached sprinkler is remotely controlled from indoors rather than at the valve unit. This is accomplished without the use of unwieldy and unsightly electrical cables by means of radio frequency (RF) signals. A remote, programmable, controller unit located indoors with attached transmitting unit commands such transmitting unit to send signals in accordance with preprogrammed instructions in the controller unit. A receiver unit attached to the valve unit intercepts the transmitted signals and instructs the valve unit to open or close the water valve and flow of water based thereon. Direct connection of the controller to the valve unit is possible such that the transmitter unit and receiver unit are not used such as during pleasant weather conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent C. Ericksen, Alan J. Smith, Kim Y. Hayes, Mike R. Ericksen
  • Patent number: 6322454
    Abstract: An inflatable recreational device forms a climbing structure upon which users can climb and play. The device may take the form of a representation of a mountain having bulges and indentations which serve as hand and foot holds and various handles which also act as hand and foot holds. Users can climb up and down on the device or after climbing up can slide or jump down from the device. The device can be used in water or on a surface such as the ground. The device is a generally hollow container, bag, or bladder which is inflated. Straps are secured inside the device to extend at various angles between the base, sides, and top to shape and contour the device and change the natural rounded balloon shape the device would normally take upon inflation without the various interior straps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Aviva Sports, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Donald W. Gordon
  • Patent number: 6311362
    Abstract: A scraper for use with solvents and cleaners, particularly gel-type solvents which do not soak into carpet, to remove gum, grease, paint, and wax from carpeting. The scraper is preferably a single piece of plastic having an elongate handle portion which is held in hand generally parallel to the carpet and which handle curves downwardly ending in a working portion having a textured surface disposed generally parallel to the carpet. The textured surface preferably includes a plurality of transverse, forward-tipped teeth such that after application of the solvent to the gum, grease, paint, or wax, the scraper is moved in a forward, vertical, semi-circular motion such that the teeth engage the gum, grease, paint, or wax in a single direction parallel to the carpet and then lifted therefrom and moved backwards for a repeat stroke. The teeth act to agitate and work the gel into the gum, grease, paint, or wax, producing small waves of loosened material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Inventor: Gary W. Arbogast
  • Patent number: 6292687
    Abstract: An emergency response system for detecting, locating, and responding to a predetermined medical emergency, such as sudden cardiac arrest/sudden cardiac death, in a person being sensed for the predetermined emergency, and wherein the medical emergency can be treated with portable medical equipment, such as an AED machine for treating cardiac arrest/sudden cardiac death, includes a reader worn by the person being sensed for reading a dysfunction indicating the existence or imminent existence of the emergency condition and a sensor for determining when an emergency condition is read and producing an alarm signal. A processor activates a personal alarm at the location of the person suffering the emergency, now the victim, which indicates the emergency and the victim's location to those in the victim's immediate area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Inventors: DeWitt James Lowell, Rulon R. Dahl
  • Patent number: 6283528
    Abstract: A folding seat for assisting persons who use wheelchairs and other persons with physical limitations to enter and exit motor vehicles. The seat includes an adjustable width frame which fits adjacent a vehicle seat at a doorway of the vehicle and which attaches to the existing bracketry holding the vehicle seat to the vehicle body. A transfer seat is pivotally connected longitudinal of the vehicle and vertically slidably connected at an edge thereof to respective slots in a pair of spaced apart upright posts of the frame. The seat is supported in a horizontal deployed position with the pivotal connection thereof at the top of the respective slots by means of an upper cross member of the frame and by a folding brace member which extends from the underside of the seat to the lower doorway portion of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Inventor: Steven J. Townsend
  • Patent number: D451567
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Aviva Sports, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Donald W. Gordon
  • Patent number: D451568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Aviva Sports, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Donald W. Gordon
  • Patent number: D451975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Aviva Sports, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Donald W. Gordon