Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew & Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7000368
    Abstract: The capsules are disposed on a first rigid support (A1) movable in steps provided with a first plurality of seats (B1) designed to each contain a respective capsule (7), the support (A1) being designed to feed the capsules to means (5) designed to distribute a sealing solution along the rim of the cap (7B) of each capsule. The capsules (7) that have received the solution are then transferred from said first rigid support (A1) to a second rigid support (A3) movable in steps provided with a second plurality of seats (B3) designed to contain a respective capsule (7), the second rigid support (A3) then in turn transferring the capsules (7) to an unloading station (8) after a time sufficient to consolidate sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Inventor: Giuseppe Piemontese
  • Patent number: 7001076
    Abstract: A housing for receiving a bearing component is presented, which has a shaft projection, which can be inserted into the recess of the end area of a hollow section and can be pressed together with the end area, wherein the shaft projection is provided with a groove profile, in which the groove profile is prepared by a deformation process or an original shaping process. Notch effect and consequently a weakening of the cross section on the highly stressed shaft projection is avoided by the said processes. The present invention pertains, moreover, to such a groove profile located at a shaft projection of a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Lustig, Matthias Gercke, Franz-Josef Marquardt, Sören Knopp, Ralf Kunze
  • Patent number: 7000353
    Abstract: A transmission joint with a coupling having frontal teeth (20,21) is inserted between an output shaft of a gear motor and a worm screw. A release element is associated in a radial way to the coupling so that the coupling can be manually released in an emergency. The release element includes an eccentric pin that engages the coupling element in a radial way so that the coupling element can be moved from an engagement position to a release position by being turned by a lock barrel (26) with its key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: RIB S.r.l.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Bosio
  • Patent number: 7000261
    Abstract: A torso portion is shaped to surround a torso of a user. The torso portion has an inside and an outside, as well as a leg end and a waist end. A pocket is connected to the inside of the torso portion, where the pocket has first and second sides arranged on diametrically opposite sides of the pocket. A first opening is arranged in the torso portion closer to the first side of the pocket than the second side. The first opening extends from the inside to the outside of the torso portion. A second opening is arranged in the torso portion closer to the second side of the pocket than the first side. The second opening also extends from the inside to the outside of the torso portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Inventor: Anna Loffredo
  • Patent number: 7002951
    Abstract: A network system and method use a distributed network and a network processor connected to the network. System data storage is provided connected to the processor. Administrator data packets including contact telephone data and voice packets are sent by the processor when the network processor receives alert data including one or more of status data, fault data and error data. The administrator data packets include voice data sent as voice packets. The system is advantageously used with a telephone line network interface connected to a public telephone line and connected to the network. The voice packets may be converted to analogue voice signals at the telephone line network interface for the call or the data may be sent to a remote device and converted to analogue at the remote device (or a device connected to the remote device). The system may also be used with network telephones. Each network telephone is connected to the network and sends packets to and receives packets from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: 3COM Corporation
    Inventors: Karen J. Taylor, Kalpesh Savla
  • Patent number: 7003218
    Abstract: An incubator hood for an incubator for premature and newborn babies as well as to a process for regulating the temperature of an incubator hood are provided. The problem frequently occurring in incubator hoods is that the incubator hoods lead to heat losses at the premature and newborn babies and that water of condensation precipitates on the inside of the incubator in such incubator hoods, and this water of condensation obstructs the view and facilitates the growth of microorganisms in the incubator. This can be counteracted by a heated incubator hood. The comparatively complicated regulation processes, which requires the installation of temperature sensors in the incubator hood is avoided by the use of interior heating wires (1) in which temperature-dependent electric resistors (3), preferably PTC resistors with a nominal response temperature of about 37° C., are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Wolf-Dieter Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6997183
    Abstract: A breathing gas humidifier system for a patient includes a replaceable, closed water reservoir (1) with stable pressure, provided for receiving a water reserve for the breathing gas humidifier system. An intermediate storage unit (4) with water is closed from the environment and is located under the water reservoir. The water reservoir (1) and the intermediate storage unit (4) have a valve (16, 14) each, with one of the valves cooperating with the other valve, so that there is a flow connection between the water reservoir (1) and the intermediate storage unit (4) only when the water reservoir (1) is received in a connector (2) of the intermediate storage unit (4). The intermediate storage unit (4) is connected via a water connection line (5) located below the water level to a heated evaporator chamber (7), which opens above the water evaporating at the boiling point into the breathing gas line to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Jochim Koch, Marco Brombacher
  • Patent number: 6997850
    Abstract: A shifting device (1) is provided for transmitting shift commands to an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, with a housing (2) and/or a frame, a selector lever (4), which transmits shift commands to the transmission of the motor vehicle and can be moved at least in an automatic gate and preferably also in a Tiptronic gate. The selector lever (4) can be fixed in a parking position P by an axially displaceable locking bar (5) that can be actuated manually, and with a locking device, which is coupled with the ignition lock and prevents the unlocking of the selector lever (4) from the parking position when the ignition key has been removed and the removal of the ignition key when the selector lever (4) is outside the parking position. The locking device is formed by a stopper (8), which is displaceable in the direction of the automatic gate and through which the selector lever (4) passes, and a locking lever (9), which acts on the stopper (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Andreas Giefer, Jörg Meyer, Dietmar Otto
  • Patent number: 6997614
    Abstract: An elastic rubber bearing is provided with an intermediate tube, namely, a bush bearing with a reinforcing insert arranged in the elastomeric bearing body. The design of the bearing includes a pretension, which is distributed as uniformly as possible both in relation to the circumference and in the axial direction. The pretension is generated in the elastomer in a bearing body after the vulcanization by calibrating the outer sleeve. A reinforcing element of the bearing includes an intermediate tube slotted on two sides in relation to its axial extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Helmut Kammel, Bernd Kümper, Axel Sichler
  • Patent number: 6996992
    Abstract: A gas collection pipe (1) carrying hot gas establishes the connection between the combustion chambers (9) of a gas turbine plant and the flow channel (13) of the gas turbine. The gas collection pipe (1) has two inlet pipe connections (2), which open via an elbow (3) axially into a gas ring channel (4), which is joined to the flow channel (13). Cooling air is guided on the outside along the elbow (3). A plurality of ribs (8) are arranged at spaced locations from one another on the outside on the gas collection pipe (1) in the area of the elbow (3) on the side facing away from the flow channel (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Man Turbo AG
    Inventors: Hans-O. Jeske, Klaus Mohr
  • Patent number: 6993994
    Abstract: A blocking and releasing of actuating elements especially used in a manually shifted automatic transmission in vehicles for a manual gear input unit with a plurality of actuating elements, e.g., a selector lever and a button. A manual gear input unit (1) is selected for selecting gears with a first actuating element 2 for selecting at least one gear and with at least one additional actuating element 3 for setting additional functions. A detent pawl (6), which can be moved by means of an actuator 8 and by which the first actuating element and at least one additional actuating element 2, 3 can be locked and unlocked simultaneously, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Andreas Giefer, Jörg Meyer
  • Patent number: 6994530
    Abstract: A vibration type compressor related to the present invention, in which a compressor main body 3 is built into a gastight vessel 2 including a yoke 7-1, a magnetic path member 7 formed from a column-shaped core pole 7-2, a permanent magnet 12 arranged in the magnetic path, an electromagnetic coil 14 which is arranged within an annular magnetic gap 13 between the magnetic path members 7 by being supported by a mechanical vibration system to as to be able to vibrate and is wound around a lead plate to perform the connection treatment of a terminal thereof, a piston 16 connected to the electromagnetic coil 14, and a cylinder block 8 which closes the yoke 7-1 and in the interior of which is formed the cylinder portion 17 housing the piston 16, characterized in that the permanent magnet 12 is formed from a neodymium magnet or a rare-earth magnet and in that the cylindrical permanent magnet 12 is divided into four parts in the axial direction thereof, the four-part divided magnet being bonded and fixed to the side o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Sawafuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Fujisawa, Takehiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 6990979
    Abstract: Breathing equipment with a circuit for breathing gas and with a flat calcium hydroxide absorber (1) is cooled by an evaporating agent with improved cooling. A gas volume flow of at least 60 L per minute is admitted to the outer surface (14) of the calcium hydroxide absorber (1) receiving the evaporating agent by at least one gas delivery device (5). The evaporating agent is delivered to the outer surface (14) of the calcium hydroxide absorber (1) by an admitted pressure from an evaporating agent reservoir (10) via at least one connection line (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Jochim Koch
  • Patent number: 6990991
    Abstract: A safety device is provided for a gas distribution system in an airplane, containing at least one pressure regulator (5) between a pressurized gas source (2) and a supply line. Reliability of operation is improved with the provision of a pressure-limiting device (4) with two lines (41, 42) arranged in parallel with two pressure-limiting valves (43, 44, 45, 46) each arranged in the same direction in series. The pressure-limiting device (4) is arranged upstream of the pressure regulator (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Dräger Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Meckes, Herbert Meier, Wolfgang Rittner
  • Patent number: 6989736
    Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring device (1) for a motor vehicle (2), consisting of at least one display device (6) located in the interior of the vehicle, and at least one camera (4, 5) arranged in the front and/or rear area of the vehicle (2), with which the area to the sides of the vehicle (2) can be monitored and displayed on the display device (6), whereby the camera (4, 5) is arranged on a carrier unit located centrally on the vehicle (2), and whereby the carrier unit can be withdraw into the bodywork when not in use and can be extended when required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Donnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Berberich, Edwin Seitz, Tim Weis
  • Patent number: 6989549
    Abstract: A robust gas sensor can be manufactured in a simple manner and at low cost, and have no movable optical components. A measured gas cell (3) has a wall defining a cylindrical space with a measured gas inlet. The measured gas cell (3) is limited in the longitudinal axial direction by a reflective, flat first cover element (1) and by a reflective, flat second cover element (5) arranged at a spaced location from and in parallel to the first cover element (1). The height of the measured gas cell (3) corresponds approximately to 1 to 3 times the diameter of the cover elements (1, 5). The second cover element (5) accommodates a radiation source (6) and two detector elements (23, 24) with at least one measuring detector and one reference detector. The radiation source (6) is arranged displaced by 30% to 60% of the radius of the second cover element (5) from the center of the second cover element (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Wilfried Diekmann, Christoph Clausen
  • Patent number: 6988669
    Abstract: The invention concerns a thermostatic mixer valve for hot and cold water, which comprises a rotary delivery regulator device (15), a thermostatic bulb (17) positioned coaxially to said regulator device, and a mixer control device (16) working in conjunction with the thermostatic bulb. The delivery regulator device (15) and the mixer control device (16) with relative thermostatic bulb (17) are assembled and housed ready to operate in a cartridge body (10) inserted as a whole in a tap body which has means of transporting hot and cold water towards a mixer chamber and means of delivering the water towards the user point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Zipponi Rubinetterie di Nember Oscar
    Inventor: Oscar Nember
  • Patent number: 6987571
    Abstract: A sensor head has a multiplicity of linear image sensors in correspondence with different radial directions of light emitted from a pixel in a pixel line of an LCD panel. The linear image sensors extends in the direction of the axis of an imaginary semi-cylinder. The linear image sensors have light receiving faces that are angularly spaced apart on an imaginary semi-cylinder, with their light receiving faces having normals passing through the axis of the imaginary semi-cylinder. Interposed in the space between the LCD pixel and the linear image sensors is an optical system having a multiplicity of light paths associated with respective angular components of the radiation emitted from the pixel line. Each of the light paths receives a predetermined angular component of light and transmits the light thus reveived to a corresponding one of the linear image sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kumamoto Technopolis Foundation
    Inventors: Noboru Yamakawa, Toshihiro Taguchi
  • Patent number: 6984170
    Abstract: A cover plate device for a heat exchanger device, especially for a vehicle heater, includes a receiving zone (14) intended to be arranged on the heat exchanger device and to receive a fluid stream leaving the heat exchanger device in a first direction of flow (S1), a mixing zone (22) for mixing the partial fluid streams (F1, F2, F3) leaving the heat exchanger device in different areas and entering the receiving zone (14), and at least two delivery zones (24, 26) for delivering the fluid stream leaving the mixing zone (22) from the cover plate device (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patric Schlecht, Jürgen Wagner, Andreas Collmer
  • Patent number: 6982385
    Abstract: A wire cable of electrical 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 electrical conductor, each bundle of electrical 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 electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Jeng-Shyong Wu