Patents Represented by Law Firm McGlew & Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7201649
    Abstract: A coin dispensing device is provided that prevents a returning of a first coin to prevent a clink noise. The coin dispensing device has a rotating disk that dispenses coins to a guiding unit one by one. The dispensed coins are guided upwards by the guiding unit in a line. A coin return preventing unit prevents the first coin going backward which is located adjacent to the rotating disk. The first coin dispensed by the rotating disk is prevented from moving backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Asahi Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 7198256
    Abstract: A bush-type rubber mount is provided, preferably a hydraulically damping rubber mount, with a, preferably tubular, metallic inner part, an elastomeric mount body surrounding the inner part and connected to it by vulcanization. An outer sleeve accommodates the inner part. The inner part has, in an axial section, two radially outwardly extending elevations located opposite each other on its circumference and are completely embedded in the elastomer. Two elastomer recesses extend in a kidney-shaped pattern in relation to the circumference of the mount body between the elevations and pass axially through the mount body. The two elastomer recesses are arranged in the elastomeric mount body near the inner part, so that the inner part standing free in relation to the outer sleeve in the area of the kidneys is connected to the mount body essentially only via the elevations on the mount body. A defined cardanic axis extending through the apices of the elevations is formed at right angles to the axis of the mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Alfred Tatura, Claudia Hoping
  • Patent number: 7198624
    Abstract: A phototherapy apparatus for the treatment of psoriasis which includes a dielectric-discharge excimer lamp 32, which is equipped with a reflector 34 and optical system 36 for ensuring a substantially uniform density of energy, is mounted on a maneuverable arm 40. The arm 40 is mounted to a stand 24. An electronic control unit 20 and a radiofrequency power supply unit 22 are connected to the lamp 32. A pipe of a cooling circuit 9 is connected to the lamp 32 via the arm 40. The pipe 9 connects to an air-liquid exchanger 3 with a de-ionizer having a temperature sensor 5 and a sensor 7. The sensors 5, 7 and 10 are connected to a microcontroller 12, which is connected to an operating panel 14 and to a display 16 and a printer 18. A hardware container 26 is provided on the stand to hold the radiofrequency power supply unit 22, the printer 28, the microcontroller 12, the control panel 30, and the air-liquid exchanger 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: EL.EN S.P.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Muzzi, Alessandro Baldesi
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: D540391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Asahi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Irie