Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew & Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7195416
    Abstract: A ball-and-socket joint for motor vehicles provided, with a joint ball and a pivot pin, a housing part formed of a shaped metal tube having a top end with an opening and having an opposite end with a pivot pin opening through which the pivot pin protrudes and with a molded material molded on a portion of the housing, the molded on material forming functional surfaces on each of an inside and an outside of the housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventor: Eric Holmes
  • Patent number: 7195398
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a bearing shell for a ball-and-socket joint, wherein the bearing shell has a core component consisting of a first material, which is completely enclosed by a jacket component consisting of a second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Mettallwaren AG
    Inventors: Frank Budde, Martin Rechtien
  • Patent number: 7191888
    Abstract: A movable belt conveyor system for a leach pad for use for sulfidic copper ore, where favorable conditions are to be generated for leaching out the copper by a slight compaction of the ore piled up into a dump for the microbiological leaching technology. The movable belt conveyor system of a length of up to several km is composed of a plurality of smaller belt segments, comprising a tail segment (70), standard segments (711-n) and a head segment (72), as well as a traveling tripper (8). To prevent the loading by these individual components from being excessively compacted by the weight of the device during multiple travel over the dump during the moving process, the belt drives with the driving drum are accommodated in the tail element (70), which is supported on the soil next to the leach pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Man Takraf Fördertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Kahrger, Dieter Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 7192214
    Abstract: A sealing bellows is provided having a jacket (1b) arranged between first and second edges (1a, 1c) of the sealing bellows. The edges (1a, 1c) of the sealing bellows are sealingly in contact with components in the assembled state of the sealing bellows (1). At least a first edge (1a) of the sealing bellows has radially inwardly pointing teeth (3a), which engage a contour of a component or a housing (2) of a ball and socket joint to form a snap connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: ZF Lemörder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Stefan Schönhoff, Frank Budde
  • Patent number: 7188971
    Abstract: A lamp string set formed by a plurality of lighting elements which are connected in series, or in series and parallel, a support body receiving the plurality of lighting elements, and cover layer enveloping the lighting elements and the support body with insulator material, with its appearance having shape and pattern as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Inventors: Jeng-Shyong Wu, Ping-Huang Chang
  • Patent number: 7182026
    Abstract: A pallet which is made from elongate steel members of arcuate cross section which are welded together to form a frame, and plastic slats which are engaged with a snap action with the steel members and which form a planar upper surface for the pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: E-Dek Investments (Pty) Ltd.
    Inventor: Roland Anton Birkenmayer
  • Patent number: 7182284
    Abstract: A crushing device is configured as a mobile or semi-mobile unit (1), in particular for use in open cast mining and in the recycling industry, with a feeding container (Z), a feeding conveyor means (3) connected downstream of this for a crusher unit (7), a discharge conveyor (8) serving to transport the crushed product therefrom and a support structure (4), on which the previously named components are held. In order to improve the feasibility of the crushing device, only a single discharge conveyor unit (8) is provided as a discharge conveyor device for both the drawing off and the discharge process. The conveyor unit (8) is constructed to slew as a subassembly in the horizontal and vertical direction relative to the support structure (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Jabs, Frank Seehöfer, Ivan Hysek
  • Patent number: 7182678
    Abstract: A clamping device is provided for the exact manual resharpening of knife blades (6) on a whetstone (5). The knife blade (6) is mounted in the clamping device (9) and at least one support contour (2, 14, 14a) of the clamping device (9) is designed such that it is congruent with the contour of the cutting edge of the knife blade (6) or that it extends equidistantly from the contour of the cutting edge of the knife blade (6). The present invention is characterized in that the support contour (2, 14, 14a) has an end piece provided with an arch (14) or an end piece provided with a radius (14a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: Woitek Keska
  • Patent number: 7175385
    Abstract: The rotor (5) of a gas turbine containing a compressor part (1) and a turbine part (3) is mounted in an axial thrust bearing (19) and in two radial journal bearings (16, 17). One of the bearings is a journal bearing (16) arranged in the intake area of the compressor part (1) and the other journal bearing (17) together with the thrust bearing (19) is arranged in the area of the turbine part (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: MAN TURBO AG
    Inventors: Emil Aschenbruck, Michael Blaswich, Andreas Kleinefeldt, Ulrich Orth
  • Patent number: 7175753
    Abstract: A process and a device are provided for monitoring the hydrogen concentration in a gas with at least one device, which comprises an electrochemical gas sensor and a bipotentiostat, e.g., for use in internal combustion engines with hydrogen, in fuel cells and in the petrochemical industry. The electrochemical gas sensor used has two working electrodes (3) and (4), with which the hydrogen and oxygen concentrations are determined in the gas in different steps due to the application of a voltage by a bipotentiostat (5-18). In an additional, optional step, a voltage in the range of ?1,100 mV to ?800 mV is applied to a working electrode (4), so that hydrogen is formed at the working electrode (4) and the functional surface of the working electrode (4) as well as the sensitivity of the working electrode (3) to hydrogen can be checked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Drägerwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Herbert Kiesele, Peter Tschuncky
  • Patent number: 7175126
    Abstract: The invention refers to a rewinding machine and a method for producing logs of paper; the machine comprises means for feeding a continuous paper web (2) along a predetermined path, means for operating a series of discontinuous transverse cuts in order to subdivide the web (2) into portions of sheets of predetermined length to be separated by tear, means for feeding tubular cores (1) upon each of which a preset number of sheets is to be wound to form a log, a cores (1)-guiding channel (C) which extends between a cores (1)-feeding station (A) and a station at which a log (RO) is formed, the said channel (C) being delimited in part by a fixed guide (3) and in part by a roller (RA) which cooperates for the feeding of the paper (2); the machine comprises a device (4, 5; 32, 31) able to deliver predetermined amounts of glue within said channel (C), the said device including first and second means (4, 31; 5, 32) located and acting on corresponding preset points being located between the station (A) for feeding the c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Inventor: Fabio Perini
  • Patent number: 7172396
    Abstract: Two opposed coaxial discoidal elements (35, 37) are diametrically dilatable and are able to move independently of each other axially and pass axially into the tire (P) when the tire is positioned in the mold, in such a way as to dilate each of said discoidal elements (35, 37), for engaging a corresponding annular bead (P1, P2) of the tire and positioning it exactly against the edge of the respective pan (13, 15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Cima Impianti S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tiziano Galigani, Daniele Brogi, Massimo Capecchi
  • Patent number: D537739
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Lassigne
  • Patent number: D537741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Chopard International SA
    Inventor: Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele
  • Patent number: D538183
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Lassigne
  • Patent number: D538184
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Chopard International SA
    Inventor: Karl-Friedrich Scheufele
  • Patent number: D538963
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Flos S.p.A.
    Inventor: Philippe Starck
  • Patent number: D538997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Efalock Professional Tools GmbH
    Inventor: Alfred Schlembach
  • Patent number: D539168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Lassigne
  • Patent number: D539671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Lassigne