Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew and Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7744537
    Abstract: In a method for identifying a living tissue in an ultrasonic diagnosis, the elasticity of a living tissue to be diagnosed is measured for each local small area by using ultrasound. Elasticity data for each kind of known living tissue is composed of an elasticity modulus frequency histogram in each local small area for each kind of living tissue and is managed in a data library. Regarding the elasticity data serving as the measurement results, the kind of living tissue to be diagnosed is identified by using the elastic data for each kind of known living tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanai, Yoshiro Koiwa
  • Patent number: 7744815
    Abstract: A device and a method are provided for determining chlorine dioxide, especially in the presence of chlorine as a foreign gas. In the device the gas sample is exposed at first to a reagent for removing chlorine and subsequently to an indicator or to an electrochemical cell for the qualitative and/or quantitative determination of chlorine dioxide. The reagent for removing chlorine is or contains cyclohexylsulfamic acid and/or salts thereof. The device, through which flow can take place may be a test tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co., KGaA
    Inventors: Holger Bohm, Andreas Mohrmann, Bettina Runge, Armin Schulten
  • Patent number: 7736704
    Abstract: To protect a base metal layer (1) against high-temperature corrosion and high-temperature erosion, an adhesive layer (3) based on MCrAlY is applied to the base metal layer (1). The adhesive layer (3) is coated with an Al diffusion layer (4) by alitizing. The diffusion layer (4) is subjected to an abrasive treatment, so that the outer built-up layer (4.2) on the diffusion layer (4) prepared by alitizing is removed by the abrasive treatment. A ceramic heat insulation layer (2) consisting of zirconium oxide, which is partially stabilized by yttrium oxide, is applied to the diffusion layer (4) thus treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Man Turbo AG
    Inventors: Sharad Chandra, Norbert Czech
  • Patent number: 7736173
    Abstract: An insulation displacement contact (IDC) is provided for use in a connector housing having an IDC receiving passage with insertion region first side edge and insertion region second side edge defining lower stops and upper locking catches. The IDC includes a base portion with a first IDC arm extending from the base portion and a second IDC arm extending from the base portion. The arms each have a lower portion with reduced dimension, a wire cutting/clamping region with an inner surface for insulated wire cutting and clamping, and an upper portion defining a region for introducing wires for termination. The IDC arms are flexible with respect to the base portion whereby the wire cutting/clamping regions cooperate for cutting and clamping insulated wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Surtec Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Chou-Hsing Chen
  • Patent number: 7735198
    Abstract: A pivotable bracket is provided such that a constant moment of friction is present at the hinge (4). A first hinge part (5) is provided, which has a cylindrical pin (6) and a contact surface (11). A second hinge part (12) is provided, which has a bearing bush (13), which can be pushed over the pin (6), with two friction surfaces (15, 16) directed at right angles to the central axis (14). The second hinge part (12) is braced against the contact surface (11) by means of a tensioning device (7, 19, 20, 21, 22) arranged on the upper side of the pin (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lothar Petermann, Gunnar Wiegandt, Stefan Papendieck
  • Patent number: 7732512
    Abstract: Laser ray transmitting colored polyolefin resin composition containing an anthraquinone salt forming dye below; and method of laser welding wherein welding a portion of contact of a laser ray transmitting material of said resin composition and a laser ray absorbing material by irradiating laser ray so that the laser ray transmitting material transmits the laser ray and the laser ray is absorbed in the laser ray absorbing material with the laser ray transmitting material and the laser ray absorbing material in contact with each other: A, B: —NH— or —O—; R1-R3: hydrogen, amino, hydroxy, halogen; R4-R13: hydrogen, alkyl, nitro, sulfonic group; Kin+: organic ammonium ion; m: 1 or 2; n: 1 or 2; the sulfonic group is —SO3 or SO3M, the number of —SO3 being m, M representing hydrogen or an alkali metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Orient Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heihachi Yushina, Osamu Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7732963
    Abstract: A small-sized motor includes a field magnet attached to an inner circumferential surface of a metallic motor casing and having four or more magnetic poles. The field magnet is formed of a single ring-shaped magnet member having a predetermined thickness with respect to the radial direction and a predetermined length with respect to the thrust direction. At each of portions between the magnetic poles formed through magnetization, the magnet member has a thin portion having a reduced thickness with respect to the radial direction, the thin portion being formed by cutting the magnet member from the radially outward side. The magnetization is performed in the radial direction so as to alternately form S poles and N poles in the circumferential direction. At each of portions between the magnetic poles, the magnet member may have cut portions formed at opposite end portions of the magnet member with respect to the thrust direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iizuka, Mitsushi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7731202
    Abstract: A stabilizer is provided for a motor vehicle with two shafts (2, 3), which extend in the transverse direction of the vehicle, can be coupled with one another via a mechanical coupling (40) and are in functional connection with wheels of the motor vehicle with their ends facing away from the coupling (40). A first shaft is connected to a first coupling portion designed as a locking disk and a second shaft is connected to a second coupling portion, which cooperates with the locking disk (7) and is designed as a locking device (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Peter Reitz, Wolfgang Kinzelmann, Ingo Mueller, Hans-Juergen Moesch, Jens Vortmeyer, Lutz Pydde
  • Patent number: 7730885
    Abstract: A device for mixing anesthetic vapor with anesthetic gas has a pressure limitation feature achieved in a simple manner. The device has a valve device (11), with which the evaporator is switched on and off. The valve device (11) is equipped with an overpressure release device (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Jürgen Müller, Sven Heyer, Michael Heidschmidt, Dirk-Stefan Reichert
  • Patent number: 7731247
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for connecting and blocking hollow elements used as piping for fluids, both gaseous and liquids, The hollow elements (11,13) are connectable by plugs or anchoring plates (19) and connecting plate (21), engaging at least one wall of adjacent elements and fixed by anchoring screws (22). At least the connecting plate (21) is provided with protrusions or contact grips (24) designed to physically penetrate into the surface of the elements to be connected when the connecting plate is anchored to the anchoring plate by the screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: TESEO S.r.l.
    Inventor: Paolo Guzzoni
  • Patent number: 7726215
    Abstract: A device is provided for transmitting a biaxial pivoting movement of a gearshift lever (2) into a planar movement of a gearshift lever position transmitter with a guide element (20, 27, 31, 32) for limiting the movement of the gearshift lever position transmitter to a movement in a noncurved plane. The device includes a transmission element (19, 7a) for transmitting a pivoting movement of the gearshift lever (2) about a first pivot axis (11) into a pivoting movement of the gearshift lever position transmitter in a noncurved plane, and with a hinge joint for converting a pivoting movement of the gearshift lever (2) about a second pivot axis (12) into a linear movement of the gearshift lever position transmitter in the noncurved plane. The positions (15a) of the gearshift lever (2) can be detected in the noncurved plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Andreas Giefer, Jörg Meyer
  • Patent number: 7726313
    Abstract: A sealing frame for a breathing mask is provided that can be adapted to the contours of the face of a mask user in a simple manner. The sealing frame (1), includes a soft plastic material (5) with embedded metal strips (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Drägerwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg-Uwe Meyer, Götz Kullik, Cornelia Schrader, Hans-Ullrich Hansmann
  • Patent number: 7726666
    Abstract: An actuator is provided for a two-part stabilizer, which builds up a spring rate in its opened position. A hydraulic absorbing unit (9) is arranged on the axle of the switchable coupling unit (8). The absorbing unit is connected to one stabilizer part (4), on the one hand, and to the other stabilizer part (5), on the other hand. The absorbing unit forms at least one pressure chamber (32) and a suction chamber (33) and assumes a blocked position in the locked position of the switchable coupling (8) and counteracts the relative twisting motion between the two stabilizer parts (4, 5) at a hydraulic spring rate in the opened position of the switchable coupling (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Bernd Grannemann, Andreas Hartmann, Jens Vortmeyer, Mauro Zanella
  • Patent number: 7725967
    Abstract: A patient bed is provided for transporting and/or positioning a patient. The patient bed has a bed area provided for receiving a patient. The patient bed is flexible at least in the bed area in such a way that the patient bed can be rolled up around a part of the patient bed. The patient bed has at least one transport mount for acting on by a transporter, and the patient bed is designed to be transported via the at least one transport mount when loaded with a patient. The patient bed has a plurality of reinforcing fibers, which are flexible and tension-proof, wherein each of the reinforcing fibers passes through the bed area and is operatively connected to at least one of the at least one transport mount in such a way that a force acting on the bed area can be transmitted at least partially to the at least one transport mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Simmerer, Joerg-Uwe Meyer, Ryszard Kummerfeld, Volker Schierschke, Goetz Kullik
  • Patent number: 7726543
    Abstract: A method for the production of a soldered joint between at least two contact partners (22, 23) of a bonding arrangement (21), with a formed piece of solder material (27) being arranged at a distance to the bonding arrangement. The formed piece of solder material is at least partially melted off. The at least partially melted off formed piece of solder material being thrust against a bonding arrangement in such a way that both bonding partners are wetted in a bonding area to establish an electrically conductive bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Smart Pac GmbH Technology Services
    Inventor: Ghassem Azdasht
  • Patent number: 7727369
    Abstract: A gas sensor is provided that has the diffusion of the measuring gas toward the working electrode adapted in such a way as to obtain a good signal-to-basic current ratio. Provisions are made for the measuring gas to be transported via a capillary arrangement (11), wherein the capillary arrangement (11) is designed as an arrangement extending in parallel to the working electrode (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Uwe Kühn
  • Patent number: 7726715
    Abstract: An etchable plate-shaped material is used as a vacuum suction pad 31. On one surface thereof, a large number of independent protruded portions and recessed portions are formed to provide a suction part 33b. Further, a periphery of the suction part is annularly formed to provide an airtight part 33a. When the vacuum suction pad 31 comes close to a substrate to be sucked, a skirt pad 32 with a slit 32d is integrally formed in the shape of a hemmed hat using an elastic member, in order to block outside air into a peripheral space of the vacuum suction pad 31. With this arrangement, it is possible to prevent the substrate from being locally deformed when the substrate is sucked by discharging air from a suction port 36 and to widen a clearance between the vacuum suction pad and the substrate such as a liquid crystal panel, at which the suction is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Nagasawa, Kiyoshi Takamatsu
  • Patent number: 7726307
    Abstract: An anesthesia system with an anesthetic evaporator can be operated even in case of a defect, particularly in case of a power outage. The anesthetic evaporator (10) and a valve arranged upstream of the anesthetic evaporator (10) are provided, whereby the gas flow through the valve (8) is conveyed completely or partially through the anesthetic evaporator (10) or a bypass line (9) past the anesthetic evaporator (10) in case of operation in accordance with the regulations, while the gas flow takes place only through the anesthetic evaporator (10) in case of a defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Dittmann, Jürgen Manigel, Ralf Heesch, Thomas Stepan
  • Patent number: 7726179
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring a fluid flow delivered by means of a pump. In the method the pressure distribution of the fluid is continuously or quasi-continuously measured as actual values in partial areas of the pump stroke and compared with desired values. In the device at least one pressure sensor is provided for the continuous or quasi-continuous measurement of the pressure of a fluid at least in partial areas of the pump stroke and a comparator is provided for comparing the measured actual values of the pressure with desired values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Alldos Eichler GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Müller, Sergei Gerz
  • Patent number: 7722018
    Abstract: A subframe bearing and method of forming same is provided with a subframe (12) having a main section between a first engagement flange (30) and a second engagement flange (32), an inner tube (2), an outer tube (4) and an elastomer bushing (6), as well as a stop plate (16). The elastomer bushing is vulcanized with the inner tube (2) and the outer tube (4) defining a bushing subassembly. The outer tube has a main section (42), an angled transition portion (44) and a step portion (40). The outer tube continues axially from the main section (42) to a stop flange (20). The elastomer bushing (6) has a bulged outer surface portion (36) extending continuously and uninterrupted outwardly of the angled transition portion (44) and extending continuously and uninterrupted outwardly of the step portion (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Meyerboeck, Barry Graul, Val Moreno