Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew & Tuttle
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Patent number: 7484771Abstract: An adjustable bracket is provided with profiled parts (2, 3), a hinge (4) between the profiled parts (2, 3) and with a duct (7, 8) for accommodating media lines (9). The duct (7, 8) is formed of a flexible material. A fastening device (5, 6) for the duct (7, 8) is present on the top side and/or the underside of the profiled parts (2, 3) in such a way that it can be guided over the hinge (4).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Haehner, Axel Mummert
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Patent number: 7484281Abstract: A tool system for replacing a glow plug (31) of a diesel engine includes a plurality of tools (55), by means of which a defective glow plug (31), which is screwed tightly into an internal thread (33) of a mounting hole (32) of a cylinder head (30) of the diesel engine, can be removed from the mounting hole (32), the glow plug (31) being arranged in a radially expanded, cylindrical depression (34) of the mounting hole (32) of the cylinder head (30). To make it possible to accurately align the individual tools (55) necessary for replacing the glow plug (31) with the central longitudinal axis of the mounting hole (32), a clamping sleeve (2) is provided, which can be inserted into the depression (34) and into which a centering sleeve (1, 20) can be pushed to concentrically align the individual tools (55, 65, 75, 85, 95). The clamping sleeve (2) can be pressed into the depression (34) to hold the centering sleeve (1, 20) in a fixed and clamping manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Klann Spezial-Werkzeugbau GmbHInventor: Horst Klann
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Patent number: 7481221Abstract: A breathing mask for breathing support devices (10) to guide the breathing support gas to the patient. The mask includes a mask body including a material that is permeable to air at least in partial areas. A gas guiding structure is provided which can be connected to suction openings of the breathing support device (10). The gas guiding structure extends through the interior of the mask body. The gas guiding structure for the transport/delivery of gas is limited partially by air-permeable areas of the wall of the mask body, through which ambient air can be drawn in. The mask is characterized by high wear comfort and improved safety against accidental coverage of the suction areas.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Drägerwerk AktiengesellschaftInventors: Götz Kullik, Hans-Ullrich Hansmann
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Patent number: 7481216Abstract: An emergency oxygen system is provided for aircraft passengers. The system includes at least one oxygen mask (2), with a sensor (4) for detecting at least one breathing characteristic value of a passenger using this oxygen mask (2). A control unit (10) individually determines the oxygen requirement of the passenger on account of the detected breathing characteristic value. A dosing device (8) is actuated by the control unit (10). The dosing device (8) supplies an oxygen quantity corresponding to the determined oxygen requirement, to the oxygen mask (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Dae Systems GmbHInventors: Detlef Degenhardt, Günter Boomgaarden, Rüdiger Meckes, Wolfgang Rittner
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Patent number: 7481220Abstract: A breathing mask to be fastened with a strap on the head with breathing gas supply through the strap. The strap includes areas that have a multilayer design and at least two layers of the material of the strap lying one on top of another are connected with one another such that they form a channel, through which a gas can flow.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Drägerwerk AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jörg-Uwe Meyer, Götz Kullik, Cornelia Schrader, Hans-Ullrich Hansmann
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Patent number: 7480995Abstract: The corrugating roller (7; 9) for machines to produce corrugated cardboard, comprises: a hollow cylindrical body (7B; 9B), with an outer (7D; 9D) surface provided with corrugations (7C; 9C); a circuit for a heat-carrying fluid; and a pair of necks (7E, 7F; 9E, 9F), through at least a first (7E; 9E) of which said heat-carrying fluid is supplied. The body (7B) and the necks (7E, 7F) are produced in a single block machined by removal.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Fosber S.p.A.Inventors: Mauro Adami, Desiderio Garcia
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Patent number: 7481643Abstract: Convertible embossing device comprising a structure (1) with two fixed sides (10) and two mobile sides (11) with respective external faces (EF, EM) and internal faces (IF, IM) and provided with, in correspondence of the respective internal faces (IF, IM), two upper recesses (12, 13) and two lower recesses (12?, 13?) with a circle-arc profile intended to support the end flanges (20, 30) of the two embossing rolls (2, 3) orthogonal to the sides (10, 11) of the same structure (1), wherein the mobile sides (11) are joined to the fixed sides (10) and the respective upper and lower recesses (12, 13, 12?, 13?) define, by cooperating with one another, two pairs of circular seats for the flanges (20, 30) of the rolls (2, 3), and in that, in a second operating position, the mobile sides (11) are distanced from the fixed sides (10) and the upper recesses (12, 13) of the sides (10) and (11) define, each one by cooperating with corresponding semi-circular closure flanges (15, 16), two pairs of circular seats for the flangType: GrantFiled: April 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: FUTURA S.p.A.Inventor: Paolo Catelli
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Patent number: 7481549Abstract: A glass wall (1) has two parallel wall elements (3), at least one of which consists of a material made of glass or a similar material, which is transparent to light, and behind which LEDs, with which the transparent wall element (3) can be lit translucently, are arranged in rows as illuminating devices. To achieve illumination of the glass wall (1) over the largest possible areas, provisions are made for LED light sources (7) to be arranged in a small number of illuminating groups on plate-like carriers (17) in the area of the front-side end of a narrow, elongated light chamber (6). A plurality of such light chambers are arranged separated by transverse walls (4, 4?, 5) in the vertical position next to each other or in the horizontal position one on top of another to form the glass wall (1). Each light chamber (6) has at least one translucent wall element (3) with an inner surface having a refractive and reflecting structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Inventor: Jürgen Hess
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Patent number: 7481215Abstract: An anesthetic evaporator with a pressure control circuit has a differential pressure pick-up (18) can be calibrated in a simple manner. A switchover device (20) is provided according to the present invention at a bypass gap (3), which is designed to connect the gas inlet (4) directly with the gas outlet (5) via a first bypass line (23) and to bridge over the bypass gap (3) via a second bypass line (26) connected to a ventilation duct (27) in a first switching position. The gas flow from the gas inlet (4) to the gas outlet (5) is established via the bypass line (2) in a second switching position. The calibration of the differential pressure pick-up (18) with the pneumatic connections (16, 17) is performed in the first switching position of the switchover means (20) via the ventilation duct (27), which is open toward the ambient atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Thomas Rossen, Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Michael Heidschmidt, Jürgen Müller, Rainer Kunz
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Patent number: 7480966Abstract: A mixing device (9) for fibers in a gaseous flow, specifically designed to be arranged on the line supplying a head for forming air-laid webs, is described. The device comprises a duct (11) for fibers suspended in a gaseous flow, with an inlet (13) and an outlet (15). A plurality of rotors (16-19), perpendicular to said flow and equipped with radial elements (43), is provided between the inlet and the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: A. Celli Nonwovens S.p.A.Inventor: Alessandro Celli
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Patent number: 7482558Abstract: A thermotherapy device is operated as an incubator or as an open care unit. The care unit has a bed for receiving newborns, which can be closed with a hood (3). At least one heat radiation source (4) is provided. The hood (3) is located between the bed and the heat radiation source (4) when the thermotherapy device is closed and the hood is at least partially transparent to the radiation originating from the heat radiation source (4). The device allows only a small temperature drop during the transfer from the open mode of operation into the closed mode of operation and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGInventor: Jochim Koch
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Patent number: 7478744Abstract: A shaped box, made of cardboard or similar material, suitable for packaging products such as medicines, wherein the precut cardboard forming the box comprises an additional precut layer (35) to define a cursor (35A) attached on the inside of one wall (27) of the box, from which one (17) of the folding flaps (17, 15) for closing said box extends; said cursor (35A) has a tab (L) that remains folded back so as to follow both said closing flap (17) and an extension (P) of said additional layer (35), thus being glued to the inside of said folding flap (17).Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Project S.a.s di Massimo Memichelli & C.Inventor: Camilla Maffei
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Patent number: 7478968Abstract: A rocker pendulum for a motor vehicle has an oblong basic body via at least one fastening element, wherein the basic body is a hollow extruded section.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AGInventors: Georg Wolf, Frank Budde
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Patent number: 7478802Abstract: A pivoting bearing for chassis components of motor vehicles has a tubular joint housing (8), which forms a cylindrical interior space and in which a metallic internal part (1) and an elastomer body (5) are accommodated. The elastomer body (5) is axially pretensioned in the axial longitudinal direction via the intermediary of stop rings (6, 7), which are connected with the elastomer body and cooperate with corresponding projections (10), which project into the interior space of the joint housing (8). At least one of the projections is formed by a spring lock washer (11), which is inserted into a radial depression (12) of the interior space of the joint housing (8) and is in contact with a recess (14). The recess extends circumferentially radially at the outer edge of the stop ring (6) and is engaged by the spring lock washer (11) in the mounted state of the pivoting bearing.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AGInventors: Stefan Wolter, Werner Schmudde, Reinhard Richter, Reinhard Buhl, Holger Bublies
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Patent number: 7478592Abstract: A clamping device for clamping a flexible packing (2, 3) of a cylinder (1) of a printing press, which cylinder has an axial channel (6) on a jacket surface, the clamping device includes a clamping body (10), which has a surface (S) that forms in the channel (6) with an opposite surface (4) a clamping gap for at least one end of the packing (2, 3) protruding through an opening (7) of the channel (6). A pressing device (13; 14; 10a) presses the clamping body (10) and the opposite surface (4) against each other with a clamping force (F). A mounting device (12; 14; 1, 8), which forms a support surface (9; 14?; 9?), touches the clamping body (10) and the clamping body (10) is supported on it.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2003Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Maschinenfabrik WIFAGInventors: Andreas Zahnd, André Kolzem
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Patent number: 7477395Abstract: A measuring device for determining the concentrations of gases by radiation absorption. The device includes at least one radiation source for generating radiation, a measuring cell, which is arranged downstream of the radiation source and in which the medium to be measured is located and at least one radiation detector, which is reached by the radiation after it has been sent through the measuring cell. A radiation guide device is provided by which the radiation is guided to the radiation detector. The radiation guide device includes a main optical unit, which has, on the one hand, an optical element (4), so that the punctiform radiation source is imaged in a bar-shaped radiation spot (5) extending along a preferred direction (1), and which has, on the other hand, parallel reflection surfaces (7, 7?), which extend at right angles to the preferred direction and at the inner surfaces of which the radiation is totally reflected between the optical element (4) and the radiation detector (3, 3?).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Wilfried Diekmann, Lars Wulf
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Patent number: 7475927Abstract: A pneumatically controlled finger gripper having a supporting body (11) with a proximal and a distal end, a pneumatic control piston (12) guided and moving alternatively in the body, a compression disk (13) connected to, and moving axially with, the piston relatively at the distal end of the supporting body, and a flexible gripper element (14) assembled between the compression disk (13) and the distal end of the supporting body (11) and moving between a contracted and expanded position in response to the movements of the control piston with the compression disk between an inactive and active position.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: GIMATIC S.p.AInventor: Giuseppe Maffeis
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Patent number: 7472640Abstract: A pneumatic control rotary actuator that incorporates a control piston of a rack toothing engaging with a pinion to cause it to rotate together with an item holder device; the pinion has toothing made up of several parallel pins (23) spaced at an angle, positioned and held orderly between a base flange (21) and an item holder disk head (22); the base flange and the disk are each produced by compression molding, die-casting, sinterization and the like, using a low mechanical resistance material whereas the pins are made of some other material with high mechanical properties and hardness.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Gimatic S.p.AInventor: Giuseppe Maffeis
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Patent number: D585307Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Di Modolo International Switzerland S.A.Inventor: Dino Modolo
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Patent number: D586031Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: FLOS S.p.A.Inventor: Patricia Urquiola