Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pearne & Gordan LLP
  • Patent number: 6765798
    Abstract: A thermal management device is for a electronic apparatus, and includes a thermally conductive member, and elastic and thermally conductive material. The member is for engagement with a heat sinking portion and for conducting thermal energy. The member has two legs that are deflectable relative to each other. The first leg is configured for location proximate to an electronic component and the second leg is configured to extend toward the heat sinking portion. The member has a connecting portion interconnecting the two legs such that thermal energy can travel between the legs, and such that a spacing is provided between the two legs. The elastic and thermally conductive material is located in the spacing between the legs such that the thermal energy can travel from the first leg through the material and to the second leg, and such that the two legs may deflect relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: William Edward Ratliff, Jacob Leland Sealander
  • Patent number: 6632170
    Abstract: An articulated arm for holding surgical instruments, having elongated arm members; rotational joints connecting the arm members end to end, such that members are pivotable about the joints and at least one of the joints is selectively lockable by fluid pressure; and a plurality of tubes communicating fluid pressure between two adjacent joints. When two adjacent members are pivoted relative to one another, the tubes connecting a particular pair of joints remains substantially stationary with respect to the arm member connecting that pair of joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Biomec Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan S. Bohanan, Daniel N. Kelsch, Alexander K. Smith
  • Patent number: 6152378
    Abstract: An applying means in a discharge means includes a set of electrodes, and the electrodes face the ground level, are aligned along one continuous plane, are separated from each other at specified intervals in the horizontal direction, and are set to the same electrical potential. When the direct current high voltage is supplied from a power supply means, electric force lines are directed upward in the air above the applying means, producing charged particles based on corona discharge from the applying means. The charged particles absorb water in the air, condensing and binding into water, and dispersing the fog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Palei Aleksei Alekseevich, Lapshin Vladimir Borisovich, Popova Irina Sergeevna, Chernishev Leonid Sergeevich, Masaya Tanaka, Katsuji Yamamoto