Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Merchant & Gould P.C.
  • Patent number: 8251677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blower apparatus with an electric motor, which drives a blower wheel, is arranged in a motor housing and has a commutator with at least two brushes, which form in each case an associated brush bearing face with respect to the commutator, wherein a cooling air flow for cooling the electric motor is diverted into a cooling air channel of the motor housing by a blower air flow produced by the blower wheel. The invention is based on the object of designing the motor cooling system of the blower apparatus of the generic type in such a way that it is more efficient. The object is achieved by virtue of the fact that the cooling air channel has an air distributor, which splits the cooling air flow into at least two cooling air subflows, which are in each case supplied to one of the brush bearing faces directly and in targeted fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Schiel
  • Patent number: 8251320
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a component for a railway snow melter. The component includes a mounting plate adapted for connection to a tie duct. The mounting plate defines a point nozzle opening and/or a track duct nozzle. A point nozzle is mounted to the mounting plate at a location above the point nozzle opening. A track duct nozzle is mounted to the mounting plate at a location above the track duct nozzle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Railway Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: David K. Fox
  • Patent number: 8251053
    Abstract: The invention relates to equipment and related methods for producing concrete blocks. The equipment and methods described herein utilize splitting assemblies having larger projections and/or smaller projections or peaks disposed on at least one side of a splitting line and which engage the workpiece as it is split into at least two pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Anchor Wall Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald J. Scherer
  • Patent number: 8251277
    Abstract: A thermal sleeve is provided according to the invention. The thermal sleeve can be provided as a cup sleeve for wrapping a cup and providing thermal insulation. The cup sleeve includes a creped paper product having a first end, a second end, a first cup opening, and a second cup opening, and an adhesive holding the first end and the second end together to form a wrap wherein the wrap is sized to enclose a cup. A method for manufacturing a cup sleeve is provided. A combination cup and cup sleeve is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Wausau Paper Mills, LLC
    Inventors: John E. Katchko, David Raymond Uitenbroek
  • Patent number: 8254015
    Abstract: Laser systems and methods for providing an output light beam having a target spatial pattern are provided. A light generating module generates an input light beam, whose spectral profile is then tailored by imposing thereon a controllable phase modulation. The obtained spectrally tailored light beam is dispersed, using at least one spatially-dispersive element to provide an output light beam having a spatial profile which is a function of the spectral profile of the spectrally tailored light beam, The phase modulation is selected in view of the spectral profile of the input light beam and of the dispersion characteristics of the at least one spatially-dispersive element so that the spatial pattern of the output light beam matches the target spatial pattern therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Institut National d'Optique
    Inventors: Yves Taillon, Mathieu Drolet, David Gay, Louis Desbiens, Brian W. Baird
  • Patent number: 8250931
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting in a non-aqueous, non-conductive liquid. The present method also relates to a corrosion inhibitor that can be employed in such a liquid. The method can include measuring or detecting the present corrosion inhibitor with a magnetic flow meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Global Process Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Young, Donovan Erickson
  • Patent number: 8254744
    Abstract: A telecommunications cable management system includes trough elements including a planar top surface and sides for cable routing and management. The trough elements are made from separate parts assembled together with a mating arrangement. The mating arrangement allows assembly of the system on site, such as by snapping the parts together. The trough elements are then assembled together to form the cable management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Sayres, Thomas C. Tinucci, Thomas L. Barnes
  • Patent number: 8248172
    Abstract: A wideband oscillation circuit outputting oscillation signals (divided signals) of continuous frequencies is disclosed and the wideband oscillation circuit includes an oscillator that outputs an oscillation signal, a filter that filters the oscillation signal output from the oscillator and outputs an injection locked signal, and an injection locked frequency divider that performs a free-run operation and outputs a divided signal of the oscillation signal while its oscillating operation is regulated by the injection locked signal, the division ratio of which varies in accordance with a control signal, wherein the filter generates the injection locked signal by controlling the passing characteristic that caused the oscillation signal to pass with respect to time in accordance with a filter control signal locked with the divided signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center
    Inventors: Kenichi Okada, Shoichi Hara
  • Patent number: 8246346
    Abstract: A blooming candle is described as an ornamental candle that transforms between different appearances as the candle burns. The candle has a tapered body that extends along a longitudinal axis from a top portion to a bottom portion, where the top portion has a larger diameter than the bottom portion. Vertical grooves are cut into the outside surface of the tapered body to form segments. When the candle is burned, the center portion of the candle about the wick melts according to the candles defined heat radius. As the candle continues to burn, the wax material begins to soften and the segments between the vertical grooves will begin to separate away from the tapered body. As melting continues, the segments continue to separate in an outward and downward direction, resembling petals from a blooming flower. The described candle structures have a predictable ornamental change in shape during the burning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Inventor: Kim Jeffrey Walters
  • Patent number: 8246708
    Abstract: A filter pack includes a filter construction and a sealing system for sealing the construction within a duct or housing. The filter construction has first and second opposite flow faces and is configured for a straight-through flow. The sealing system includes a frame construction and a compressible seal member. The compressible seal member is molded around a portion of the frame construction. The compressible seal member is sufficiently compressible to form a radial seal between and against the frame construction and a surface of a housing when the filter pack is inserted within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Scott Gieseke, Carolyn J. Finnerty
  • Patent number: 8248457
    Abstract: A stereoscopic device including a sensor assembly for detecting a sequence of stereoscopic images of an object, a movement detector for detecting the movements of the sensor assembly relative to the object, and a processing unit connected to the sensor assembly and to the movement detector, wherein the processing unit selects portions of the stereoscopic images, according to a signal received from the movement detector, thereby producing a visually stable sequence of display images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Visionsense, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael D. Goldstein, Avi Yaron
  • Patent number: 8245566
    Abstract: A procedure and device for diagnosing the increasing speed and the dead time of an exhaust gas probe includes carrying out the diagnosis by comparing a modeled and a measured signal after a default change of a fuel air ratio of an air fuel mixture that is supplied to a combustion engine. The signal is an output signal of the exhaust gas probe or a modeled or measured signal that is derived from the output signal. The device for diagnosing the velocity and the dead time of an exhaust gas probe also includes a comparing unit for comparing the modeled signal with the measured signal for diagnosing the velocity and the dead time of the exhaust gas probe after a default change of a fuel air ratio of an air fuel mixture that is supplied to the combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Kersten Wehmeier, Ronaldi Rusli, Andreas Koring, Richard Hotzel
  • Patent number: 8245972
    Abstract: A leading edge structure includes two or more multilayer panels at least partially overlapping and suitably curved with at least partially congruent concavities. Each multilayer panel includes at least the following three layers: a first metal foil layer metal foil, a second intermediate layer of fiber-glass securely fixed to the first layer, and a third metal honeycomb layer securely fixed to the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
    Inventors: Luigi Capasso, Marco Fassero, Massimo Riccio, Ernesto Rinaldi, Salvatore Russo
  • Patent number: 8245961
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material reducing machine including a rotary reducing component positioned at least partially within a reducing chamber. A sizing screen defines a portion of the reducing chamber and extends at least partially around the rotary reducing component. Material catches are disclosed for preventing elongated strips of material from snaking longitudinally through the sizing screen without being adequately reduced in length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Daniel James Vroom, Duane Harthoorn
  • Patent number: 8246892
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling the quality of blocks that are produced front face-up in a mold, and verifying the accuracy of the production of such blocks, to ensure that the blocks are manufactured with consistent quality and minimal block-to-block variability. Measurement locations are formed on the front faces of predetermined blocks. By measuring the distances between the measurement locations and the rear faces and comparing with a target distance, any variation provides an indication that the blocks are not being properly formed. The process variables, such as the alignment of the compression head and/or the pressure plates to the mold, can then be adjusted accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Anchor Wall Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Randal Tufts, Jimmie L. Mugge, Paul Joseph Johnson
  • Patent number: 8249771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting an error in a component assembly of a motor vehicle, the component assembly having a functional control unit and at least one function module to be controlled by the functional control unit as components. According to the method, a check is made by the functional control unit to determine whether a combination of individual errors is present for at least one component of the component assembly. When the combination of individual errors is thereby present, an occurrence of the error is verified by the functional control unit and a signal for implementing an emergency functional strategy is transmitted by said control unit to an engine control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kurrle, Marc Chaineux, Andreas Feldges
  • Patent number: 8246361
    Abstract: An electrical connector for making electrical connection to insulated conductors, the connector having a first connector part which has lengthwise extending wire channels for receiving portions of the insulated conductors; insulation displacement contacts for making separate electrical connections to the conductors, when received in the lengthwise extending wire channels, under relative movement between the insulation displacement contacts and the wires, so that the insulation covering the conductors is cut and the insulation displacement contacts make electrical connections to the conductors; transverse wire channels intersecting with said lengthwise extending wire channels and being shaped to receive portions of insulated conductors of another electrical cable from which the outer covering of the cable has been removed; and a second connector part relatively moveable with respect to the first part for effecting said relative movement, wherein the insulation displacement contacts are located at intersections
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ADC GmbH
    Inventors: Wayne William Dennes, Jeffrey Allan Glen
  • Patent number: 8245405
    Abstract: A tool and method for accurately and efficiently cutting through a jacket of a fiber optic cable at a break-out location. The tool securely holds the fiber optic cable and accurately controls the depth and length of cut(s). In addition, the tool accurately positions the cut(s) both in relation to the fiber optic cable and in relation to other cuts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Lu, Mark D. Narum, Paul Suek, Scott Carlson, Bernard Dietzler, Erik Gronvall
  • Patent number: 8247395
    Abstract: A cream base for the topical application of skin care therapeutics and a process for making the cream base. In one embodiment, the therapeutic is tretinoin, hydroquinone and fluocinolone acetonide for the treatment of hyperpigmented skin conditions, such as melasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Galderma S.A.
    Inventors: Nancy Puglia, Jerry Roth, Rosario Ramirez
  • Patent number: D666315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Anchor Wall Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmie L. Mugge, Jay J. Johnson