Patents Represented by Attorney Modiano & Associati
  • Patent number: 7490811
    Abstract: A diaphragm valve for compressed or liquefied gases, comprising a valve body which forms an inlet which can be associated with a pressurized gas cylinder and forms a gas outlet port. A closure port is provided between the inlet and the outlet port, and a gasket acts on the closure port and is supported by a flow control element, which engages the internal face of a diaphragm, on the outer face whereof there acts a pusher piston, which can be actuated by means of an external knob. Between the diaphragm and the pusher piston, at least one metallic disk being arranged which is not retained at its edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Pergola S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giancarlo Nicolini
  • Patent number: 7484992
    Abstract: An assembly for connecting an electronic control board to the stator windings of an electric motor for roller blinds having a base with, on a first face, an element for centering on the stator of the motor at an end face of the stator. A first body for accommodating first electrical terminals for direct connection to first leads of the stator windings and a second body for accommodating second electrical terminals for direct connection to second leads of the stator windings protrude from the opposite second face of the base. The second electrical terminals are in direct electrical contact with an electronic board; the second body has a slot which intersects the seats on which the second electrical terminals are provided; the electronic board can be inserted in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Inarca S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ido Boischio
  • Patent number: 7484437
    Abstract: A transmission unit particularly for driving screw feeders and auxiliary user devices of mixing trucks, comprising an off-center distribution device, which can be associated with an external power take-off and forms couplings for the connection of auxiliary user devices; a reduction unit, which is functionally connected to the off-center distribution device and can be associated with the screw feeders of a mixing truck; and a main friction clutch device, which is interposed between the off-center distribution device and the reduction unit, a device for reversing the direction of rotation of the screw feeders and an auxiliary friction clutch device for the reversing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Comer Industries S.p.A.
    Inventors: Achille Brunazzi, Andrea Gallo, Fausto Mora
  • Patent number: 7478825
    Abstract: A frame with telescopic closure particularly for pushchairs or the like, comprising two front posts and two rear posts that are connected in a downward region to respective wheels and are kinematically connected to each other, the frame being provided in an upward region with two handle posts that can move with respect to the front posts and the rear posts in order to pass from an extended active position to a retracted folding position, the frame further comprising two upper auxiliary posts, each of which is connected rigidly to a respective handle post and has at least one engagement portion for a corresponding lateral covering wing that is connected to a corresponding side of the back of a seat that is supported by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: L'Inglesina Baby S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ivan Tomasi, Lino Groppo
  • Patent number: 7479047
    Abstract: An assembly for connecting the stator windings of an electric motor to the respective power supply, that has a first box-like connector with first internal passages open at their ends to accommodate corresponding first electrical terminals, the first connector being provided with an engagement for the stator which is adapted to arrange the first passages parallel to the axis of the electric motor; at least one second box-like connector with second internal passages open at their ends to accommodate corresponding second electrical terminals for coupling to the first electrical terminals; and an adapter module for connecting the first connector to the second connector and comprising a third intermediate connector, which has a first part to be coupled in a cavity formed at the end part of the first internal passages and a second internal part for stably accommodating the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: INARCA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ido Boischio
  • Patent number: 7473304
    Abstract: An air filtration device for suppressing biological pollutants for closed environments, including at least one enclosure with at least one air inlet, at which at least one perforated conducting grille is located, that has a present negative electrical potential adapted to emit electrons when air flows, so as to give negative electric charge to particles to which microorganisms adhere, at least one air passage duct being formed between at least one plate having predefined positive potential for collecting negatively charged particles to which microorganisms adhere, at least one deflector plate having a negative potential adapted to divert the particles to which microorganisms adhere, an electrical field being generated between the collector plate and the deflector plate, facing each other, the field to divert and precipitate the particles to which the microorganism adhere onto the collector plate, and an inactivator for inactivation of the microorganisms provided and at least one filtered air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Inventor: Mario Besi
  • Patent number: 7472636
    Abstract: A method for loading and cutting glass sheets on a cutting table, that includes the steps of: providing, with a scoring head, scoring lines on a first sheet of glass positioned on the cutting table; extracting, during the scoring step, sucker-fitted pick-up arms from below the first sheet being worked; tilting the pick-up arms so as to place the suckers on a second sheet to be picked up, which is arranged substantially vertically adjacent the scoring table; picking up the second sheet, starting to tilt it toward the cutting table during the scoring of the first sheet; moving the scored first sheet away from the cutting table; positioning the scoring head beyond a sheet supporting region, on an opposite side with respect to a pick-up region; and positioning the second sheet on the cutting table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Z. Bavelloni S;p.A.
    Inventor: Franco Bavelloni
  • Patent number: 7462001
    Abstract: A method for repairing and/or waterproofing and/or insulating and/or reinforcing and/or restoring the structural integrity of wall systems, which it consists in providing spaced injection holes within a wall system in a manner suitable to pass through cavities that exist in the wall system, inserting injection tubes in these holes, and then inserting a substance that expands after injection as a consequence of a chemical reaction so that the substance reaches the cavities connected to the injection holes or are proximate thereto, the injection tubes being, preferably gradually retracted along the injection holes in the opposite direction with respect to insertion, to allow the substance diffusing in cavities crossed by the injection holes or proximate thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Uretek S.r.l.
    Inventor: Carlo Canteri
  • Patent number: 7458299
    Abstract: A centering device for the guided transfer of bars from a feeder to a lathe, and interposed therebetween aligned with a bar guide with the mandrel of the lathe, comprising: a bush for fixing to a fixing seat and rigidly coupled to a bar opening aligned with the respective bar guide and with the mandrel of the lathe; a tubular body, rigidly coupled to the bush coaxial thereto and provided with a housing seat for a ring with oscillating elements which are pivoted to a respective fixed anchoring element with one end and are retained in mutual contact by elastic elements, delimiting a through opening whose diameter is about as long as the diameter of a bar. The ring and the anchoring element are axially movable within the seat, in contrast to springs toward the lathe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Iemca Giuliani Macchine Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Ragazzini, Renzo Romagnoli
  • Patent number: 7458237
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing knitted articles for forming items of clothing, without lateral seams, with a circular knitting machine, comprising a step for forming at least one pouch-like region, in which part of the needles or all the needles that belong to at least one sector of the needle cylinder are moved to knit at at least one feed of the machine by way of an alternating rotary motion of the needle cylinder about its axis and with an oscillation extent sufficient to produce transit, at the feed, of all the needles of the sector that are moved to knit at the feed, in order to form, with the needles that belong to the sector and are moved to knit, a number of rows of knitting in excess with respect to the number of rows of knitting formed by the needles contiguous to the sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Santoni S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ettore Lonati, Fausto Lonati, Tiberio Lonati
  • Patent number: 7451521
    Abstract: An apparatus for removal of material by suction, comprising, supported by the chassis of a truck, a partial vacuum unit for a collection tank, to which aspirated material is conveyed. The tank is fitted on an unloading device suitable to lift on one side the tank in order to empty by gravity the material accumulated therein. The unloading device comprises a frame rotatably coupled to the chassis by interposing a rotatable center bearing, provided with an actuation for actuating the rotation of the frame with-respect to the chassis. The frame has a base for connection to the center bearing, and a supporting structure for the tank is associated with the base. The structure is adapted for multiple movements for positioning and unloading the tank outside of the truck footprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Cappellotto S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Cappellotto
  • Patent number: 7449547
    Abstract: A process for the total synthesis of Distamycin, and synthetic poly-(4 aminopyrrole-2-carboxamide) congeners thereof, using 1-methyl-4-forinylamino-2-pyrrolecarbonyl chloride iteratively as an intermediate, is provided. The process finds application for both in solution and solid support synthetic technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Naxopharma S.r.l.
    Inventor: Paolo Lombardi
  • Patent number: 7444839
    Abstract: A therapeutic hosiery item and a method for manufacturing the same with a circular hosiery knitting machine. The therapeutic hosiery item comprises first rows of knitting alternated with second rows of knitting produced with a number of stitches that is smaller than the number of stitches constituting the first rows of knitting. The first rows of knitting are composed of at least one stretch yarn and the second rows of knitting are composed of at least one stretch yarn that has a larger diameter than the at least one stretch yarn that composes the first rows of knitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Calzificio Pinelli S.R.L.
    Inventor: Enzo Pinelli
  • Patent number: 7442314
    Abstract: A method for wet oxidation of organic material, characterized by the utilization of the heat generated by the oxidation of the pollutants that are present in a first preheated wastewater introduced at the base of the reactor in order to provide the energy sufficient to trigger the oxidation reaction in a second wastewater, which is introduced in a higher point with respect to the base of the reactor and has a temperature that is proximate to the ambient temperature and a high concentration of pollutants; and an apparatus adapted to provide this innovative wet oxidation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: 3V Green Eagle S.p.A.
    Inventor: Franco Sardelli
  • Patent number: 7431046
    Abstract: A pneumatic device for continuously varying the pressure of compressed air for feeding pneumatic actuators, comprising a pressure regulation device, which is adapted to receive in input an unregulated pressure line and to provide in output a regulated pressure; an error amplifier, which is adapted to drive an actuation device, which in turn is adapted to actuate the pressure regulation device; and a pressure transducer, which is adapted to detect a pressure value downstream of the pressure regulation device and to feed it back to the error amplifier, for closed-loop control of the pressure regulation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Z. Bavelloni S.p.A.
    Inventor: Franco Bavelloni
  • Patent number: 7430782
    Abstract: A floor cleaning machine particularly for industrial applications, comprising a box-like structure, which is provided, in its downward region directed toward the floor, with floor cleaning devices, and supports electrical controls for actuating and controlling the machine, at least one part of the electrical controls for actuating and controlling the machine being associated with a supporting body that can be detachably coupled to the box-like structure, and connectors for detachable electrical connection being provided between the part of the controls for actuation and control and their remaining part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Comac S.p.A.
    Inventor: Massimiliano Ruffo
  • Patent number: D578276
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Mafin S.p.A.
    Inventor: Stefano Pavan
  • Patent number: D579226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Cerantola S.p.A.
    Inventors: Angelo Pinaffo, Paolo Scagnellato
  • Patent number: D583132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Geox S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mario Polegato Moretti
  • Patent number: D583300
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Inventor: Cristian Rancati