Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew and Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7793561
    Abstract: A threaded nut is provided for a linear drive having a rotatable spindle. The threaded nut is provided with a main nut, wherein the main nut is intended for being arranged with its internal thread on the external thread of the spindle, and is intended to perform a translatory displacing motion during a rotary motion of the spindle. The threaded nut has, furthermore, a safety nut, which is intended not to mesh by its internal thread with the external thread of the spindle during the normal operation of the linear drive and to mesh with the thread of the spindle in case of failure of the main nut. To make possible simple mounting in case of such a threaded nut means and to reduce the risk for incorrect alignment, the main nut (11) has a first part and a second part. The two parts are located at spaced locations from one another and each part being provided with a threaded section (18a, 18b) of the main nut (11), wherein the safety nut (12) is intended to be arranged between the two threaded sections (18a, 18b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: AB SKF
    Inventors: Daniel Greilinger, Thomas Wyss, Marcel Soltermann
  • Patent number: 7789084
    Abstract: A method for equipping a personal service unit with passenger oxygen masks includes arranging one or more passenger oxygen masks in an intermediate container ready for use, and then attaching the intermediate container together with the masks located therein within the personal service unit. In this manner, the comparatively lengthy packaging procedure which is difficult to carry out in overhead work, may be effected in a simplified and reproducible manner outside the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: DAe Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rittner, Ruediger Meckes, Wolfgang Marquardt, Hasso Weinmann
  • Patent number: 7789338
    Abstract: The rod (A) for winding reels of weblike material includes a cylindrical surface for winding of the weblike material, on which members (P) for engagement of an initial portion of the weblike material to be wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: A. Celli Nonwovens S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Acciari
  • Patent number: 7789554
    Abstract: A double temperature sensor is provided for measuring a near-surface temperature of the ambient air and the temperature of the skin surface (9). A heat flux insulation block (4) is made of an insulation material in one piece as a housing. Two temperature sensor elements (2, 3) with respective electric connections (6) belonging to them are arranged in the heat flux insulation block (4) one on top of another at spaced locations from one another and near the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Drägerwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Sattler, Hartmut Stark
  • Patent number: 7785151
    Abstract: A connection system for the preferably contactless transmission of data and power supply signals between a sensor means and a base unit in a measuring and transmission system comprises a sensor-side and a base-side connection element. There is provided in at least one of the connection elements an optical diagnosis display unit for displaying state parameters within the measuring and transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Knick Elektronische Messgeraete GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Feucht, Jörg Giebson
  • Patent number: 7784839
    Abstract: A joint (1), especially of an exhaust system is provided for two axially adjacent ends (2, 3) of a tubular body (4, 5), respectively. Each tube end (2, 3) has a ring collar (8, 9) projecting radially outwards. A centering ring (6) is arranged axially between the tube ends (2, 3) and which has a plurality of collar segments (17) in the radial outward direction. Some of the collar segments (17a) project axially on one side of the centering ring (6) and axially overlap the ring collar (8) of one tube end (2), while the other collar segments (17b) project axially on the other side of the centering ring (6) and axially overlap the ring collar (9) of the other tube end (3) in the radial outward direction. A clamp (7) axially and radially overlaps the ring collar (8, 9) and the centering ring (6) in the radial outward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Krause, Arthur Wieland
  • Patent number: 7781559
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a curable composition excellent in workability, adhesion properties, rubber-like properties, storage stability, and quick curability. The curable composition comprises (A) a crosslinkable silyl group-containing organic polymer and (B) a (meth)acrylic polymer obtained by polymerizing a (meth)acrylic monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated bond in the presence of a metallocene compound and a crosslinkable silyl group-containing thiol compound, at least one end of the (meth)acrylic polymer being bonded to a residue, —S—R3 (where R3 represents a group having a crosslinkable silyl group) obtained by removing a hydrogen atom from the crosslinkable silyl group-containing thiol compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Cemedine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Saito, Tomonori Saito, Naomi Okamura
  • Patent number: 7779735
    Abstract: Apparatus for causing paper webs to tear off within rewinding machines, the web (2) being provided, at regular intervals, with transverse perforation which subdivide the web into sheets joined to each other but able to be separated in correspondence of said perforation lines, the apparatus comprising means to cause the tearing of the web (2) upon the passage of a perforation line (p) which separates the last sheet of a log (RO) in the course of formation from the first sheet of the next log to be formed, characterized in that the tearing means are of pneumatic type (SP) able to direct a jet of compressed air toward the line (p).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Inventor: Fabio Perini
  • Patent number: 7782063
    Abstract: The present invention includes an antenna for measuring an electromagnetic wave radiated from a device to be measured stemming from partial discharge and having sensitivity at least in the UHF band; a filter for extracting a TEM mode component from a measured time waveform; and a measurement device body including a processing section adapted to obtain a second order integral value of the time waveform having undergone the filter processing and obtain a discharge charge quantity from the value. The present invention also comprises an electromagnetic wave radiation simulating apparatus for inputting a pseudo discharge signal to the device to be measured and previously obtaining the relation between the second order integral value and the discharge charge quantity, the processing section obtains the discharge charge quantity from the second order integral value with reference to the previously obtained relation between the second order integral value and the discharge charge quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Shinya Ohtsuka, Masayuki Hikita, Takashi Teshima, Yuji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7780235
    Abstract: A vehicle seat (1), in particular a motor vehicle seat, is provided including a seat substructure (5), a seat cushion (31, 33) with a seat shell (31) and an inclination adjuster (21) with a drive (43). The inclination adjuster (21) with drive (43) is used to change the inclination of the seat cushion relative to the seat substructure (5). The inclination adjuster (21) is loosely positioned on the seat substructure (5) or on the seat cushion (31, 33) and movably attached to the other respective sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: RECARO GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ingo Teufel, Hans Edrich, Kai Schumann
  • Patent number: 7778458
    Abstract: The photographing means of the present apparatus photographs a piece of wood, while the image processing means calculates degrees of circularity from the photographed images of the piece of wood, and detects images with significant degrees of circularity as knots. In addition, the image processing means 1 clips a portion including a knot from the photographed image of the piece of wood, deems a portion clipped at a predetermined threshold among the color spaces of each pixel of the clipped portions to be a blackened portion, and determines black portions with a high proportion of a number of pixels of the blackened portion to the number of pixels of the clipped portion of the knot as dead knots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 7774946
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for non-contact measurement of the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle. In practice, the method provides for the steps of: applying a plurality of markers to the wheels of the motor vehicle along a line approximately substantially coaxial with the wheel; positioning, at each wheel for which the characteristic angles must be acquired, two image acquisition devices, with different inclinations with respect to said wheel; acquiring for each of said wheels, through each of said two image acquisition devices, at least one image of said wheel with the relative markers; determining, through epipolar and triangulation geometrical calculations, the equation of an approximate plane in which said markers lie in space, with respect to a reference system; determining the camber and toe angles of said wheel on the basis of the equation of said plane and of the equation of the reference planes with respect to which the motor vehicle takes a known position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: FASEP 2000 S.r.l.
    Inventors: Fabio Boni, Monica Carfagni, Rocco Furferi, Lapo Governi
  • Patent number: 7772495
    Abstract: A wire cable of electric conductor forming of multiple metals or alloys includes single (bundle) wire cable or double (bundle) wire cables, in which at least in one bundle of electric conductor, each bundle of electric conductor is composed of slim electric wire made by two or more than two metals or alloys, which is covered by insulator to form a wire cable of electric conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Jeng-Shyong Wu, Li-Wen Liu, Woi-Jen Liu
  • Patent number: 7770580
    Abstract: A device is provided for respirating a patient by means of high-frequency ventilation, which has at least one device for setting a desired tidal volume by a user, and which has at least one regulating device for regulating an amplitude of the respiration pressure and/or at least one regulating device for regulating the oscillation frequency on the basis of the tidal volume determined. A corresponding method is provided for regulating a device for respirating a patient by high-frequency ventilation and a method is provided for respirating a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Krüger, Tobias Glaw
  • Patent number: 7770581
    Abstract: A breathing mask shall has an inspiration valve (4) that can be replaced in a simple manner. The breathing valve (4) is designed for this purpose as a modular assembly unit that can be inserted into the breathing gas channel (3) from the outer side (10) of the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Olaf Balke, Manfred Gdulla, Siegbert Tolk
  • Patent number: 7770240
    Abstract: The connection of a breathing mask to a safety helmet provides increased wearing comfort. A fastening mount (12) with circular arc-shaped inner contour (14) is provided, and the bracket for the breathing mask has a projection corresponding thereto. The projection is in contact with the inner contour (14) of the fastening mount (12), so that the bracket is displaceable in relation to the fastening mount (12) in a rotatingly movable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Manfred Gdulla, Michael Rosert, Dirk Feil, Siegbert Tolk
  • Patent number: 7771136
    Abstract: A ball and socket joint is provided, for example, for an axle system of a motor vehicle. The joint has an essentially ring-shaped or pot-shaped joint housing (2). The ball (7) of a ball pivot (1) is received in the interior space of the joint housing (2) in a slidingly movable manner. The joint housing (2) includes a ball pivot-side and a housing cover-side housing half (4, 5). The two housing halves (4, 5) have an essentially circumferential axial stop (9). Based on the axial stop (9), the housing halves (4, 5) can be brought into contact with one another in the axial direction in an exactly defined manner. The reproducibility of tolerances in manufacture can be carefully controlled allowing manufacture at a low cost. The specific load-bearing capacity of the ball and socket joint can be increased or the dimensions of the ball and socket joint can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Manfred Buhl, Ralf Kunze
  • Patent number: 7770720
    Abstract: A conveying device (1) is provided for conveying preferably heavy goods on pallets or the like on an essentially horizontal conveying line or track (5, 6) on the floor (4) of a room or outdoors. The conveying line is, in the longitudinal direction, divided into a first conveying track (5) and into a second conveying track (6). A dividing area is formed by at least one moving partial piece of the same kind that can be folded upward in the form of a folding piece (3) similar to a drawbridge in order to provide an unobstructed transversal passage (D), for example, for a fork-lift truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Knapp Logistik Automation GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Freudelsperger
  • Patent number: 7771147
    Abstract: A coupling part (10) is provided for connecting two containers stacked on top of one another, in particular on board ships, at their corner fittings (13). The coupling part (10) includes two coupling projections (11, 12) facing in opposite directions. One projection (11) engages in the corner fitting (13) of one container and the other projection (12) engages in the corner fitting of the other container. It is ensured that the coupling part (10) can be mounted in the corresponding corner fitting such that locking lugs (18) of the coupling part (10) always face in the same direction on an end face of the container, i.e. that no coupling part (10) is inadvertently inserted the wrong way. One of the coupling projections (11) of the coupling part (10) is asymmetrical. The coupling part (10) can only be inserted into and mounted on the corner fitting (13) in a specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: SEC Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Bederke
  • Patent number: 7770045
    Abstract: A method for operating cooperating, differing devices, particularly of a plant, with different controls controlling the control sequences and in particular with different control cycles, is characterized in that the clocks (IPOi) of the different controls (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) are interpolated on a common system clock (tTick) and that the control sequences are synchronized. An apparatus suitable for performing the inventive method correspondingly has at least one common interpolating device (5.3) for the controls (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) for interpolating the cycles (IPOi) of the different controls (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) on a common system clock (tTick) and at least one synchronizing device (5) for synchronizing the control sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Gmeiner