Patents Represented by Law Firm Reinhart, Boerner
  • Valve actuator with lock mechanism
    Patent number: 8157242
    Abstract: A valve actuator with manual lock is provided. The valve actuator with manual lock includes a locking button arrangement that is operably coupled to a shaft extending along an axis of rotation of a drive train. The locking button arrangement is selectively engageable with a housing of the valve actuator to lock the drive train in a selected orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Buildings, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald R. Parsons, William P. Windgassen
  • Scroll compressor build assembly
    Patent number: 8152500
    Abstract: A scroll compressor build assembly is provided. An outer housing includes multiple shell sections that interfit to provide internal steps that provide seating surfaces. One or both bearing members can use the internal seats. The outer housing may comprise three shells that telescopically interfit and that can be welded with circumferential welds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Bitzer Scroll Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne P. Beagle, James W. Bush
  • Dental prosthesis removal tool
    Patent number: 8152525
    Abstract: A dental prosthesis removal tool comprising a handle portion and a top portion, the top portion including a head portion and a beak portion. The beak portion is configured to engage both a maxillary dental prosthesis and a mandibular dental prosthesis without the tool needing to be reoriented. The dental prosthesis removal tool makes it possible for a dental prosthesis wearer to remove dental prostheses without the user placing his or her fingers inside of his or her mouth. The dental prosthesis removal tool also allows a denture wearer to remove dental prosthesis without bending, work hardening, or breaking metal clasps contained in some dental prostheses. The dental prosthesis removal tool further allows a denture wearer to more comfortably remove his or her dental prosthesis, promoting better patient compliance with maintenance procedures and oral hygiene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Henry D. Rossi, III
  • Fiber placement machine platform system having interchangeable head and creel assemblies
    Patent number: 8151854
    Abstract: A modular fiber placement machine head assembly and refrigerated creel assembly affixed to a cradle for an interchangeable platform system adapted for composite fiber manufacturing through an automated, computer controlled, fiber placement machine is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ingersoll Machine Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Tino Oldani
  • Machine for testing container capacity
    Patent number: 8151833
    Abstract: An inspection machine for inspecting the volume of liquid contained by a bottle filed to its defined fill height. A head is lowered and has a sealing plate which seals the open finish of a bottle. A fill tube assembly is part of the head and continues to be lowered until a level sensor is located to sense liquid at a pre-fill level. High and low pressure water lines which are a part of the fill tube assembly are operated to fill the bottle to the pre-fill level. The sealing plate is released and then the process is repeated lowering the sensor to the post-fill level and operating only the low-pressure line to fill the bottle to the post-fill level. The total liquid filling the bottle is then computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.
    Inventors: Alan E. Thomas, Michael C. Bagley, Philippe Spiteri
  • Clamping apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8152173
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided, for clamping a fiber placement tool to a fiber placement machine, along a rotational axis of the fiber placement machine, through use of a clamping apparatus having a plurality of drive lugs extending axially from the machine, and having three intersecting faying surfaces thereof which mate simultaneously in substantially intimate contact with three corresponding intersecting faying surfaces of a plurality of drive lug receptacles extending axially from the tool. Pairs of movable tines, disposed on opposite sides of each drive lug, pull the drive lugs into intimate contact with the drive lug receptacles. Master fixtures are used for setting the drive lugs and lug receptacles with respect to corresponding ones of the other, to achieve a desired intimate fit between faying surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ingersoll Machine Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Tino Oldani, Giovanni Bonomi
  • Over wire hook latching bin or tray
    Patent number: 8152005
    Abstract: A plastic molded bin that may universally mount to either of cross wires or cross bars in a retail merchandising environment as shown. The bin includes a receptacle and has hooks and retainers projecting from the back wall of the receptacle to provide for the universal mount structure. Partition walls with a mounting structure can be used to divide the merchandise holding chamber into different merchandising compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick J. Barkdoll, Thomas E. Valiulis
  • Linear rod pump apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8152492
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for pumping fluids, such as water and/or hydrocarbons, from a subterranean formation or reservoir, include a linear rod pump having a mechanical rack and pinion drive arrangement, adapted for attachment to a pumping mechanism, such as the polished rod at the top of a rod string in a hydrocarbon well. The rack gear, of the rack and pinion drive arrangement, is adapted for connection to, and movement with, the polished rod. The pinion gear does not translate with the rack gear, and is driven by a reversible motor for affecting up and down reciprocating motion of the rack gear and pumping mechanism. Some forms of the invention include a compressible gas counter-balance arrangement. Some forms of the invention include an electronic drive configured for dealing with electric power generated by the motor during a portion of the pumping cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Unico, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Beck, Robb G. Anderson, Ronald G. Peterson, Michael A. MacDonald
  • Bioconjugates as therapeutic agent and synthesis thereof
    Patent number: 8148321
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel enzymatic approach according to the invention using an unprecedented sortase-catalyzed transpeptidation reaction between a substrate comprising LPXTG (SEQ ID NO: 11) peptide motif and biomolecules such as aminosugars, hydroxyamino acids, hydroxyamino acid esters, aminolipids, polyamines; nucleic acids or derivatives thereof; or any molecule having such moieties; or any compound having such moieties to obtain a bioconjugates useful for target delivery of a compound. The present disclosure provides bioconjugates obtained by the novel sortase catalysed transpeptidedation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: National Institute of Immunology
    Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Roy, Sharmishtha Samantaray
  • Hand protection barrier dispenser
    Patent number: 8146776
    Abstract: A hand protection barrier dispenser for dispensing disposable sanitary barriers for temporarily covering the hand and providing complete hand protection is disclosed which dispenses the hand protection barriers in a manner so that they may easily be donned by a user thereof. The hand protection barrier operates to open each of the hand protection barriers as it is brought into position to be dispensed. The hand protection barrier dispenser allows only a single hand protection barrier to be dispensed at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Balkin, Catherine C. Tollefson, Judith L. Balkin
  • Filter cartridge housing attachment systems
    Patent number: 8147691
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a fluid filter having integral attachment means which may take the form of a threaded portion of a filter cartridge. The threaded portion threadably interacts with a complementary threaded portion of a filter mounting to retain the filter cartridge to the filter mounting. The disclosure also pertains to a fluid filter having a cartridge made from two plastic shells welded together. The disclosure also pertains to a fluid filter with filter media positioned within a filter cartridge by an end cap with extending ribs welded to one of the two shells which compose the filter cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Baldwin Filters, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy L. Krull, Farrell F. Calcaterra
  • Vacuum container with protective features
    Patent number: 8141741
    Abstract: A container including a metal sidewall is provided. The metal sidewall includes a first end; a second end; a center portion having a principal width; a first feature positioned between the center portion and the first end, the first feature extending from the sidewall such that the maximum width of the sidewall at the first feature is greater than the principal width; and a second feature positioned between the center portion and the second end, the second feature extending from the sidewall such that the maximum width of the sidewall at the second feature is greater than the principal width. The container further includes a first bead located in the center portion of the sidewall; and a second bead located in the center portion of the sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Silgan Containers LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Metzger, Thomas J. Clyde, Thomas S. Diss, Kamchat Soisuvarn
  • Mounting base and scroll compressor incorporating same
    Patent number: 8142175
    Abstract: A scroll compressor assembly includes a mounting base with a pair of support ribs formed into the mounting base, for structurally strengthening the support provided by the mounting base. The mounting base may either support the scroll compressor housing as a separate component part or may integrally form part of the scroll compressor housing. The mounting base has at least two tracks for rail mounting of the scroll compressor assembly and typically includes holes for fasteners and/or grommets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Bitzer Scroll Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Duppert, Kenneth D. Heusler
  • Glass container forming machine and method
    Patent number: 8141385
    Abstract: A blow head mechanism for an I.S. machine wherein the blow head has a final blow tube. The final blow tube is supported for vertical displacement between an up position where the open end of the final blow tube is proximate the top of a blown parison and a down position where the open end of the final blow tube is proximate the bottom of a blown parison. The final blow tube is oscillated a plurality of times during the time when the blow head is “on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Hyre, F. Alan Fenton
  • Truck electrified engine-off air conditioning system
    Patent number: 8141377
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for cooling an environment in an over-the-road vehicle is provided. The air conditioning system includes an electrically driven, variable speed compressor, which enables operation of the system when the engine of the over-the-road vehicle is not running. The system is modular and is adapted to be installed in the side luggage compartment of the vehicle to enable existing vehicles to be retrofitted to provide no-idle air conditioning. The housing of the system defines two flow paths therethrough; one cold air path and one hot air path. The hot air path is configured to intersect the condenser at least two times, and draws and expels the air through the same wall of the housing. An air direction device is used to reduce the amount of air recirculation through the hot air path to increase the efficiency of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Bergstrom, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett Sean Connell, Christophe Barreau, Terry A. Zeigler
  • Biopolymer encapsulation and stabilization of lipid systems and methods for utilization thereof
    Patent number: 8137728
    Abstract: An emulsion system and method for controlling the digestion of a fat or an oil component is provided including a substantially hydrophobic food-grade component, and at least one of an emulsifier component, and one or more of polymeric components, wherein at least one of the emulsifier component and the polymeric component comprises a substantially indigestible food-grade material, such as an indigestible dietary fiber. The emulsifier component and/or the polymeric component can be selected so that the overall interfacial membrane is indigestible to humans and/or animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: David Julian McClements, Eric Andrew Decker
  • Container
    Patent number: D656042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Silgan Containers LLC
    Inventor: Jianwen Hu
  • Container having pre-curved lid
    Patent number: D656369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sussex IM, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith S. Everson
  • Gondola upright mounting device
    Patent number: D656884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick J. Barkdoll, Thomas E. Valiulis
  • Liquid dispensing syringe barrel
    Patent number: D657462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: I & J Fisnar, Inc.
    Inventor: Vladimir Siroky