Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew & Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7264647
    Abstract: A device for enriching air with oxygen in an aircraft, and a method for operating the device provides product gas enrichment with oxygen with minimum requirements. An oxygen measurement apparatus analyzing the product gas flow as well as a throughput sensor are provided in combination with a change-over device. A flow connection to an outlet channel is created in a first switch position, and a flow connection to a consumer conduit exists in a second switch position. A device for producing a change-over signal from the first switch position to the second switch position is provided if the determined oxygen output as a product of the product gas flow and the oxygen concentration has reached or exceeded a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Dräger Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Meckes, Wolfgang Rittner, Herbert Meier
  • Patent number: 7264460
    Abstract: A material processing plant comprises a first screw-type extruding machine (1) and a second screw-type extruding machine (2) which is disposed downstream thereof. Between the two screw-type extruding machines (1, 2), provision is made for a delivery zone (28) where a delivery orifice is provided, extending radially of the axes (12a, 13a) of the casing bores (12, 13) of the first screw-type extruding machine (1) and being directed towards the second screw-type extruding machine (2). The at least one casing bore (12, 13) of the first screw-type extruding machine (1) is lockable in the direction of its axis (12a, 13a) by means of a sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Munz, Jürgen Strecker
  • Patent number: 7262867
    Abstract: The device comprises at least a measuring head (7) with a transmitter (7A) and a receiver (7B). The head comprises means to measure the thickness through surface resistivity and optical means to measure said thickness by measuring the transparency of the substrate and of the relative layer applied to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Galileo Vacuum Systems S.r.l.
    Inventor: Massimo Lasagni
  • Patent number: 7261509
    Abstract: A method for operating a rack system preferably in a dispatch unit (1), with a rack (2) and an associated rack serving device for the storage and retrieval of containers (3), trays or the like to or from the rack. A rack region of the rack (2) has a plurality of rack planes (13) arranged one above the other and is served by a dedicated, mechanically coupled, height and length-adjustable rack serving device (4). In each track region embodied as an independent, closed rack unit (A, B, C), containers (3), trays or the like undergo interim storage in a buffer zone (P1, P2, P3) on the same level, are transferred for storage or retrieval and transported by an elevator (5; 6a, 6b) and/or a preferably horizontal transport connection (F1, F2) arranged in the region of the rack unit (A, B, C) at the same level, from or to a transport system or workplace outside the rack system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Knapp Logistik Automation GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Freudelsperger
  • Patent number: 7257986
    Abstract: A gas sensor (1) with a detector element (2), which is specific to a gas to be measured and sends a measured signal that depends on the measured gas concentration, has increased measuring sensitivity for measurements in the concentration range from less than 1 ppb to a few ppb. The detector element (2) is exposed in a gas admission adapter (4) to a gas to be measured via a diaphragm (3) arranged in front of the detector element (2), wherein the gas admission adapter (4) has at least a first opening (20) for the entry of the gas to be measured as well as at least a second opening (30), which is connected with a pressure modulator, which generates periodic gas pressure vibrations in the gas admission adapter (4) and is designed, for example, as a pump (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Stephan Haupt, Michael Sick, Rigobert Chrzan, Andreas Nauber, Dieter Krüger, Christoph Bernstein, Wilfried Diekmann
  • Patent number: 7258514
    Abstract: A machine tool is provided, in particular for the synchronous machining of workpieces. The tool includes two or more spindle units (2, 3), which run parallel in a machining unit and are designed to hold tools and repositioning devices for the precise adjustment of the position of the spindle units (2, 3) in relation to one another, preferably in all three directions x, y and z of the orthogonal co-ordinate system in the machining unit (4). The repositioning devices for displacing at least one of the spindle units (2, 3), at least in an x and/or y direction, include an eccentric bush (5, 6), which can be rotated about a central shaft (B1, B2) and locked and in which the spindle units (2, 3) are mounted eccentrically, parallel to the central shaft (B1, B2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Witzig & Frank GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Bauer, Timo Remmel, Helmut Nebeling
  • Patent number: 7258378
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic gripper assembly structure which comprised a supporting body (11, 111) composed of at least two wall elements or symmetrical half-shells (15, 115), realized and finished individually using a forming process and then put together to form a single body capable of receiving, supporting and guiding other structural and functional components of the gripper assembly. The complementary wall elements or half-bodies are produced using die-casting, sintering or forging techniques with material compatible for such processes and provides a housing for jaws and a drive piston of the gripper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Gimatic S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bellandi, Giuseppe Maffeisi
  • Patent number: 7258455
    Abstract: An interior mirror (01) for a motor vehicle having a carrier arm (06) which can be mounted in the vehicle and having an adjustment mechanism (04) which is adjustably mounted on the carrying arm (06), whereby a wedge mirror glass (03) is directly or indirectly mounted on the adjustment mechanism (04) and whereby the wedge mirror glass (03) is adjustable between a normal position and an anti-glare position by operation of the adjustment mechanism (04) and whereby a drive mechanism (05) is provided for operation of the adjustment mechanism (04). At least one elastic tension element (31) is provided in the interior mirror (01); with this tension element, the adjustment mechanism (04) is put under elastic tension in the normal position and/or in the anti-glare position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Magna Donnelly GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Weimer, Hans-Joachim Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7258605
    Abstract: A heating system for a vehicle has a heating air blower (24) for generating a heating air stream to be introduced into the interior space of a vehicle, a heater (22) with a heat exchanger arrangement (26) for heating the heating air stream being delivered by the heating air blower (24), a mixing arrangement (20) for setting an outside air/ambient air ratio of the air to be fed to the heat exchanger arrangement (26), an outside temperature sensor arrangement (60) for generating an output linked with an outside temperature, and an actuating device (42, 46). The actuating device (42, 46) actuates the mixing arrangement (20) for setting the outside air/ambient air ratio on the basis of an output of the outside temperature sensor arrangement (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co.KG
    Inventors: Patric Schlecht, Uwe Kohle, Oliver Sauter
  • Patent number: 7255211
    Abstract: A dashpot featuring amplitude-dependent shock absorption, especially intended for the wheel of a vehicle and including a hydraulically parallel cylindrical pressure-compensation chamber (8). The pressure-compensation chamber is partitioned by an axially displaceable floating piston (10). At least one face (25) of the floating piston is provided with a resilient bumper (18). The object is a dashpot with a floating piston that arrives more gently at its limit inside the pressure-compensation chamber (8). The bumper is accordingly accommodated in an axial hollow (17) that extends through the body (15) of the floating piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Bilstein Suspension GmbH
    Inventors: Ole Götz, Andreas Nevoigt, Walter Burböck, Dirk Feist, Claus Weimann, Ralf Wilhelm, Ulrich Hartig, Elmar Lauer, Markus Schmidt, Andreas Kaup, Tina Eisenring, Joachim Körner, Alfons Schreiner, Thomas Jost
  • Patent number: 7254916
    Abstract: A lure has a body (10) provided with a recess (12), forming a decoy and defining a longitudinal axis (AA?), a connecting member (26) inserted into the body (10) via an inner end thereof, and attachable to a line (30) at the other, outer end. The point at which the connecting member is inserted into the body (10) defines the forward portion of the lure with a hook (24) positioned in the recess (12), and an attachment device (22) for securing the connecting member (26) and the hook (24) provided in the body (10). The attachment device (22) include a resilient member (23) at least indirectly attached to the body (10) at one end and to the hook (24) and the connecting member (26) at the other end, and a guide member (22c) for guiding the hook (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Mussot
  • Patent number: 7255401
    Abstract: A headrest stay for supporting a headrest is inserted in a headrest bush and is supported. A height adjusting mechanism is attached to the headrest bush at a position corresponding to an upper end portion of a seat back. A headrest removal prevention device for preventing the headrest from being removed is built in the headrest bush at a position inside the seat back. The height adjusting mechanism and the headrest removal prevention device are formed of the same component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yokoyama, Satoshi Katahira
  • Patent number: 7249471
    Abstract: A cut design of an ornamental diamond and an observation method of the diamond which an observer can perceive a more beauty, are disclosed. The cut design is a round brilliant cut comprising a girdle, a crown above the girdle and a pavilion below the girdle. A girdle height (h) is 0.026 to 0.3 times a girdle radius, a pavilion angle (p) of a pavilion main facet ranges from 37.5 degrees to 41 degrees, and a crown angle (c) of a crown main facet is within a range of satisfying: c>?2.8667×p+134.233 and p<1/4×{(sin?1(1/n)+sin?1(1/n·sin c))×180/?+180·2c}, wherein n: refraction index of a diamond, ?: circular constant, p: pavilion angle in degrees, and c: crown angle in degrees. The cut design of the ornamental diamond provides an observer with plenty of visual-perceptible reflection when the observer watches the diamond above a table facet with a sight line of an angle less than 20 degrees with a vertical line at the center of the table facet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Hohoemi Brains, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kawabuchi, Tamotsu Matsumura
  • Patent number: 7249451
    Abstract: The machine comprises a texturing zone (12) trough which a covering yarn (22) advances; a feed unit (C) for an elastomer yarn (20); combining means to combine the textured covering yarn (22) with the elastomer yarn (20), said means comprising a first roller (B) to which said textured covering yarn (22) and said elastomer yarn (20) are fed; downstream of said first roller (B) an interlacing device (23) to interlace said textured covering yarn (22) and said elastomer yarn (20). Moreover, a drawing roller (A) for the textured covering yarn (22) is also provided between the texturing zone (12) and said first roller (B) of the combining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Giudici S.p.A.
    Inventor: Domenico Giudici
  • Patent number: 7249661
    Abstract: The invention refers to an apparatus for the control of brakes in bicycles and the like, to be used, in particular, for disc brakes mounted on bicycles and comprising a pump able to push fluid into a hydraulic circuit connected to the brake, characterized in that the pump is held inside the handlebar or a part associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Formula S.R.L.
    Inventors: Andrea Fiorenzo Becocci, Francesco Becocci
  • Patent number: D547209
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Chopard International SA
    Inventor: Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele
  • Patent number: D547210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Chopard International SA
    Inventor: Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele
  • Patent number: D549384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Flos S.p.A.
    Inventor: Johanna Grawunder
  • Patent number: D549385
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: FLOS S.p.A.
    Inventor: Piero Lissoni
  • Patent number: D550102
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Fabrique de montres Rotary S.A.
    Inventor: Robert Dreyfuss