Patents Represented by Attorney Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

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  • Heat exchanger with multiple stage fluid expansion in header
    Patent number: 7527089
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat, multi-channel heat exchange tubes extending between spaced headers. Each heat exchange tube has an inlet end in fluid flow communication with one of the headers and an outlet opening to the other header. Each heat exchange tube has a plurality of flow channels extending longitudinally in parallel relationship from its inlet end to its outlet end. A plurality of connectors are positioned between the inlet header and the heat transfer tubes to define a flow path providing fluid flow communication between the inlet header and the inlet ends of the heat exchange tubes. Two or more flow restriction ports are arranged in the series in the flow path through each connector whereby fluid flowing from the inlet header to the flow channels of the heat exchange tube associated therewith undergoes an expansion as the fluid passes through each flow restriction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Mikhail B. Gorbounov, Joseph J. Sangiovanni, Igor B. Vaisman
  • Turbine exhaust catalyst
    Patent number: 7523602
    Abstract: In a gas turbine installation having an enclosure for passing cooling air therethrough and around the gas turbine, provision is made for a mixing of the cooling air with the exhaust gases being emitted from the gas turbine to thereby reduce the temperature thereof prior to its passing into the exhaust stack, but only after the primary air has passed through a catalyst bed which is disposed in a position over the gas turbine exhaust opening. The shape of the catalyst bed is preferably A-shaped in cross-section to thereby increase the surface area thereof. In this way, the temperature at the catalyst bed is maintained at an elevated level to obtain superior performance while a subsequent mixing of the primary air with the cooling air results in lower temperatures of the gases passing through the exhaust stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Anant Rambhai Patel, Bernard G. Staib
  • Bar code reading device having image processing mode
    Patent number: 7523866
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bar code reading device of the type having an imaging assembly including a two dimensional image sensor and which may be moved between varying positions, orientations and angles relative to a substrate. In one embodiment a bar code reading device can be used to obtain an area electronic representation of a substrate including bar code indicia and a signature, and can output an area representation including a representation of a signature. In another embodiment, the bar code reading device can process and output a processed area electronic representation to an output destination. In one embodiment an output destination to which a bar code reading device outputs a processed area electronic representation is a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Longacre, Jr., Robert M. Hussey
  • Adaptable roof system
    Patent number: 7520091
    Abstract: A bang-bang servo system controls motors which provide drive for trucks on each end of a fabric support beam structure. A plurality of such truck/beam/fabric units comprise a retractable roof Separation of inner and outer truck guiding tracks/support platforms may be wide and somewhat variable. The radius of curvature of the inner and outer tracks may vary widely over the beam excursion path between open and closed roof conditions. Individual beam motion sequencing and stop position are commanded through a central control unit. These features allow great flexibility and adaptability in application of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Inventor: Daniel B. Friedman
  • Self diagnosing HVAC zone configuration
    Patent number: 7516044
    Abstract: In a drive circuit in which a plurality of drive motors are connected to a power source through a protective device which trips when the flow of current is excessive, provision is made to detect which circuit or circuits were active at the time of the failure. A microprocessor is provided to both control the activation of each of the various circuits and to also sense which circuits were active at the time of the failure. Appropriate signals are sent from the microprocessor to a user interface so that proper diagnostic and repair action can be taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Aaron Engle
  • Pump header body and modular manifold
    Patent number: 7507066
    Abstract: A modular header body is described for distributing fluid to an individually pumped fluid circuit. The modular header body has a valve to selectively isolate the header body's suction chamber from its volute, which permits a pump motor to be disconnected from the header body while the valve is closed. Each modular header body is constructed so that adjacent header bodies can be connected to each other to form a common suction chamber. Each header body's isolation valve operates independently so that the volute of one header body can be isolated from the common suction chamber without affecting fluid supply to the other header bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Inventor: Kevin J. Koenig
  • Nut seal assembly for coaxial cable system components
    Patent number: 7500874
    Abstract: An integrated seal assembly and a coaxial cable system component incorporating the seal assembly with a connector for coupling to an externally threaded port. The seal assembly includes a bellows-type seal having an elastically deformable tubular body and a plurality of sealing surfaces, and an integral joint-section intermediate an anterior end and a posterior end that assists in the axial deformation of the seal in response to axially-directed force. One of the sealing surfaces is made to engage a corresponding surface of an internally threaded nut or housing. The component is engagable with an externally threaded port via the internally threaded connector. The anterior end of the seal fits over the port and a sealing surface of the seal is capable of sealing axially against a shoulder of the port while the seal body covers the otherwise exposed externally threaded port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Noah Montena
  • Imaging module for optical reader
    Patent number: 7500614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus packaging components of an optical reading device which may include illumination optical elements, receive optical elements, and signal processing elements. In one embodiment a single circuit board can carry multiple elements such as an image sensor together with illumination elements. In one embodiment, a control circuit can be provided that is coupled to a light source and an image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles P. Barber, Carl W. Gerst, III, Vivian L. Hunter, Melvin D. McCall, Bruce L. Hahn
  • Phase-locked loop circuit and data reproduction apparatus
    Patent number: 7501902
    Abstract: This invention relates to a phase-locked loop circuit and a data reproduction apparatus, which can reduce a processing time that is required for initial adjustment in the data reproduction apparatus. In a digital data reproduction apparatus having two control functions, i.e., phase and duty adjustments for binarized data, the phase comparison with one edge is performed only at the phase adjustment by means of a phase-locked loop circuit 33 having an edge switching means 4 which controls the phase comparator 1. The phase comparator 1 inputs the binarized and a bit synchronous clock, and switches the output between a comparison result with one edge, i.e., a rising edge or a falling edge of binarized data, and a comparison result with both edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamane, Seiji Watanabe
  • Bar code reading device having plurality of operating states
    Patent number: 7492493
    Abstract: There is described a bar code reading device having an image sensor, a first operating state and an alternative operating state. In the first operating state the bar code reading device can be restricted from reading out image data corresponding to a maximum number of pixels of the image sensor. In the alternative operating state, the bar code reading device can be capable of reading out a maximum number of pixels of the image sensor. The bar code reading device can attempt to decode a bar code symbol represented in captured image data whether the first operating state or the alternative operating state is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles P. Barber, Carl W. Gerst, III, George S. Smith, II, Robert M. Hussey, Robert C. Gardiner, Matthew W. Pankow
  • Triple lumen stone balloon catheter and method
    Patent number: 7481800
    Abstract: A triple lumen stone balloon catheter (1) having a tapered distal end (9). A lumen (24) dedicated to transmitting contrast media is dimensioned and adapted to conform to the shape of a kidney in a main shaft of the catheter and conform to the shape of a crescent in a distal end of the catheter. The geometric shaping of the contrast media lumen (24) enables wall thickness to be maintained within acceptable ranges to sustain desirable mechanical characteristics while allowing for enhanced contrast media flow. A method for employing the balloon catheter (1) is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: ConMed Endoscopic Technologies
    Inventor: Steven L. Jacques
  • Removable disc drive cartridge with improved registration
    Patent number: 7480136
    Abstract: A removable disc drive cartridge providing an improved combination of shock protection and electrical alignment (registration) of a enclosed removable disc drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Lalouette Design, LLC
    Inventor: Marc J. Lalouette
  • Ergonomically designed multifunctional transaction terminal
    Patent number: 7479946
    Abstract: An ergonomically designed transactional terminal according to the invention in one embodiment includes a housing having a top portion partially defined by a touch screen, a base, and an enlarged head portion extending forwardly from the base to define a lip. An insert style card reader having horizontally oriented feed slot opening toward the front of the housing is disposed in the lip of the housing. The feed slot may be angled downward slightly to reduce build up in the slot and to encourage a sweeping action by a card during card removal. The touch screen may be angled downward in coplanar relationship with the feed slot to improve visibility of the touch screen and to improve simultaneous observation of touch screen and card indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Fitch, Eric C. Coleman, Donna M. Fletcher, James Gresko, Garrison Gomez, Paul Higgins, Paul Klock, David A. Mangicaro, Melvin D. McCall, Russ A. Meseroll, James F. O'Donnell, James B. Rosetti, Joseph B. Sakal, Thomas A. Siegler, George S. Smith, II, David Sperduti
  • Mini-channel heat exchanger with reduced dimension header
    Patent number: 7472744
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat, multi-channel heat exchange tubes extending between spaced headers. Each heat exchange tube has its inlet end in fluid flow communication to an inlet header through a transition connector. The transition connector has a body defining a divergent flow path extending from an inlet opening in its inlet end to an outlet opening in its outlet end, and a tubular nipple extending outwardly from the inlet end of the divergent flow path through the wall of the inlet header. The tubular nipple defines a fluid flow path extending between the inlet end of the divergent flow path of the transition connector and the fluid chamber of the inlet header. The inlet header has a lateral dimension less then the lateral dimension of the heat exchange tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Mikhail B. Gorbounov, Parmesh Verma
  • Automatic refrigerant charging apparatus
    Patent number: 7472557
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a plurality of sensors for sensing temperature and/or pressure conditions of the system which collectively indicate the actual refrigerant charge level in the system. This level is then compared with optimum level values that are stored in memory, and the difference between the two is used to indicate whether the system is properly charged. If not, the difference is applied to open a charge valve or a purge valve to automatically install additional refrigerant or to remove refrigerant so as to establish an optimum volume of refrigerant in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Pengju Kang, Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan, Dong Luo, Timothy P. Galante
  • Clamping and sealing mechanism with multiple rings for cable connector
    Patent number: 7473128
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector includes a connector body, a mandrel disposed inside the connector body and a compression member radially adjacent to one end of the connector body. A plurality of inner rings and at least one outer ring are interleaved in a wedging relationship inside the connector body outside a portion of a mandrel. As the compression member is axially advanced, the inner and outer rings are driven into a wedging engagement between the coaxial cable and the connector body. At least one of the inner rings is composed of a deformable material which when compressed forms a continuous seal with the coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Noah Montena
  • Transaction terminal
    Patent number: 7472825
    Abstract: A transaction terminal including a motherboard and a display coupled to the motherboard. The transaction terminal further includes a removable data carrier reader coupled to the motherboard and an optical reader coupled to the motherboard, the optical reader having a field of view. The transaction terminal further includes a user interface coupled to the motherboard and a shroud disposed proximate to the optical reader, the shroud emitting light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Fitch, Garrison Gomez, William H. Havens, Melvin D. McCall, James F. O'Donnell, George S. Smith, David Sperduti
  • Locking lug pick for firearm cleaning
    Patent number: D589579
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: The Otis Patent Trust
    Inventor: Nicholas Williams
  • Spoon
    Patent number: D593379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Oneida, Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen W. Thompson
  • Spoon
    Patent number: D593380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Oneida, Ltd.
    Inventor: Diane Shane-Schuldt