Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Robert W. Becker
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Patent number: 7537513Abstract: The invention relates to a device for accelerating abrasives, comprising a centrifugal wheel (8) that is driven to rotate about an axis of rotation. Said centrifugal wheel further comprises blades (2) that are disposed in a substantially radial orientation relative to the axis of rotation, and a lateral disk (4) on which the blades (2) are retained with a lateral edge. A feed line (6) for the abrasive has an opening (7) that is contiguous with the free edges of the blades (2) of the centrifugal wheel (8) outside the axis of rotation of said centrifugal wheel (8). The inventive device is further characterized in that the blades (2), on the side facing the feed line (6), have recesses (3) that are opposite the opening (7) of the feed line (6).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Inventor: Jost Wadephul
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Patent number: 7533648Abstract: A compression ignition internal combustion engine having at least one combustion chamber for high ignition pressures. Each combustion chamber comprises a cylinder bore in the crankcase or a cylinder liner in the cylinder bore, a piston, and a cylinder head. Spaces for conveying coolant are disposed in the crankcase such that coolant flows about walls of the cylinder bore or a liner. The cylinder head has coolant chambers. The internal combustion engine has a separate cooled plate disposed between the combustion chamber and the cylinder head. The cooled plate forms a surface cover of the combustion chamber and is connected in a positively engaging and gas tight manner with the crankcase and/or the cylinder liner. Valve seats for at least one inlet valve and at least one outlet valve are disposed in the cooled plate, and at least one injection valve extends through the cooled plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AGInventors: Heribert Möller, Mathias Wacker, Peter Spaniol
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Patent number: 7513558Abstract: A safety seat for land vehicles, aircraft or vessels, comprising a harness for suspension from fixed points of a vehicle and for supporting a vehicle occupant. Belt retractors are disposed at the fixed vehicle points, and fabric supporting belts extend from the harness to the retractors, which pretension the belts in a direction of retraction. A manually operable switching device allows the belt retractors to be switched into a free running state, a blocking state, or a positioning state. The free running state permits free withdrawal of the belts in a direction opposite to the pretension. The blocking state effects a complete blocking of the belts in both the withdrawal and the retraction directions. The positioning state effects blocking of the belts in only the withdrawal direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2004Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Holger Hansen
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Patent number: 7513225Abstract: An internal combustion engine having an intake channel for supply of fuel and combustion air, and divided over a portion of its length into a mixture channel, and into a supply channel for supply of largely fuel-free air. A simple manufacture of the engine and a simple construction are achieved if a portion of the intake channel is guided in an elastic intake adapter, whereby the intake adapter has a partition that extends over at least a portion of the length of the intake adapter and divides the intake channel into a mixture channel and a supply channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Werner Geyer, Björn Scherraus, Lukas Zürcher, Patrick Schlauch, Jürgen Häberlein, Erik Ames
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Patent number: 7513178Abstract: A hydraulic screw tensioning device for adjusting screws or bolts includes a cylinder supported on a machine part to be clamped by a threaded bolt and nut, at least one piston guided in the cylinder, a change sleeve threaded onto a threaded end of the bolt, a rotary sleeve in the cylinder for positive connection with the nut, first and second gear mechanisms for driving connection with the rotary sleeve and the change sleeve, respectively, a drive motor for the gear mechanisms, a connecting shaft between gears in the second gear mechanism and first gear mechanism, a device for alternative coupling of the drive motor with the change sleeve or the rotary sleeve, and respective recesses or extensions on a gear secured to the change sleeve and on the gear in the second gear mechanism to positively receive a tool for driving the connecting shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2005Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Inventors: Jörg Hohmann, Frank Hohmann
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Patent number: 7500421Abstract: A magazine for an automatic shell-firing weapon mounted on a gun carriage, wherein the magazine is adapted to contain a belt and comprises two closed magazine portions interconnected by a closed transfer channel. The two magazine portions are disposed on opposite sides of the weapon. In a fully loaded state of the magazine, a front section of the belt is disposed in a first magazine portion disposed on a belt supply side of the weapon. The upper part of the first magazine portion has a removal opening that faces the weapon. A rear section of the belt is disposed in a second magazine portion on the opposite side of the weapon. A middle section of the belt is guided through the transfer channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wolfgang Becker
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Patent number: 7501597Abstract: A wireless passenger seat control device, particularly for an aircraft, has at least two ranges of functions. One of the ranges of functions includes seat adjustment. The operation of the device is simplified if the control units for the at least two ranges of function, particularly for the seat adjustment and the audio/video functions, are combined in one common housing and only mechanically attached to the seat.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2002Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Duetsche Luftansa AGInventors: Steffen Voltz, Joachim Voigt
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Patent number: 7484763Abstract: The inventive device for fixing a seat belt winder is fixed to the part of a motor vehicle. The plate of the housing of the winder is provided with at lest one fixing hole for receiving a screw connection which maintains the vehicle part embodied therein. The housing of said seat belt winder is arranged in such a way that it is rotatable with respect to the fixing hole of the vehicle part, thereby enabling the winder to be automatically oriented in a direction of a force of a belt which moves at an angle with respect to the axis of the shaft. Said fixing device is characterised in that the housing (10) of the winder is rotationally maintained on the holder part (13, 19, 25) which can be firmly connected to the vehicle part (40).Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2003Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Jens Ehlers, Volkmar Heine, Ronald Jabusch, Doris Kröger
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Patent number: 7475573Abstract: A process for treating a yarn with a gas- or steam-creating medium includes traveling the yarn between a pair of elongate yarn guide elements in a pressure chamber portion of a yarn treatment chamber that is substantially sealed off to the environment and is under an overpressure. The process further includes drawing the yarn through an additional yarn guide element. The cross section of the one pair of elongate yarn guide elements and the cross section of the additional yarn guide element correspond to the thickness (titer) of the yarn traveling through these yarn guide elements such that the yarn travels through these yarn guide elements in a substantially friction-free manner and the one pair of elongate yarn guide elements and the additional yarn guide element operate in cooperation with the yarn treatment chamber such that the yarn treatment chamber is substantially sealed off against loss of pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Siegfried Brenk
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Patent number: 7475626Abstract: A device for feeding propellant charges to a heavy weapon, comprising a fixed propellant charge magazine having guides for receiving propellant charge modules such that their longitudinal axes extend horizontally. The guides are disposed parallel to one another and in horizontal planes above one another. A propellant charge feed mechanism for removing propellant charges from the magazine and transferring them to a propellant charge transfer arm includes an automatic feed mechanism disposed adjacent to the magazine and having a propellant charge chain driven in a vertical plane and provided with receiving elements for propellant charge modules. A portioning unit is disposed at the removal position at the upper end of the chain and axially relative to a respectively uppermost receiving element. The portioning unit has a mechanism for transferring and joining propellant charge modules. A mechanism is provided for transferring joined modules from the portioning unit to a propellant charge feed tray.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2005Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Jens Grünewald
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Patent number: 7472635Abstract: A blade holder for cutting machines includes a blade head held on a raising and lowering device and having an adjustment mechanism for a circular blade that is held on the blade head. The adjustment mechanism for the movement of the circular blade between a cutting position and a ready position, is provided with an adjustment piston rod having an adjustment piston that is guided in a chamber of the blade head housing and can is adapted to be moved by compressed air. The adjustment piston rod is biased by a compression spring into the ready position of the circular blade. The piston surface of the adjustment piston has a cross-sectional area that is configured such that as the path of the adjustment piston in the direction of adjustment increases, the piston surface that is acted upon by compressed air increases.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Dienes Werke für Maschinenteile GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rudolf Supe-Dienes, Falk Oberhoff
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Patent number: 7472892Abstract: A carburetor of an internal combustion engine for operating a manually-guided implement, including an intake channel having a venturi section for combustion air, a fuel channel that opens into the intake channel via a fuel opening, and an accelerator pump that is in flow-conducting communication with the fuel opening. During operation of the carburetor, the fuel channel is adapted to have fuel flow continuously therethrough. The fuel channel is guided through a pump chamber of the accelerator pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventor: Andreas Paa
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Patent number: 7472929Abstract: A connector for the connection of hoses, comprising a first connection stub having a first free end for receiving a first hose, and a second connection stub for receiving a second hose. The first hose has an inner diameter that is smaller than the inner diameter of the second hose, and the second connection stub is provided with a shoulder that, in a direction toward the second free end, decreases from a first outer diameter to a second outer diameter, with the first outer diameter being larger than the inner diameter of the first hose. The second outer diameter can be smaller or the same as the inner diameter of the first hose.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Antonio Fattorusso, Jürgen Häberlein
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Patent number: 7464779Abstract: An all-wheel drive motor vehicle having at least two wheel axles and comprising an electrical or hydraulic drive unit having a plurality of electric or hydraulic motors connected to an electrical or hydraulic energy source. Each motor is associated with a drive wheel and drives such wheel via a transmission. The motors that are associated with a given one of the wheel axles are adapted to be coupled with one another via a shiftable transverse locking device. At least one of the motors on a first side of the vehicle is adapted to be coupled, via a shiftable longitudinal locking device, with one of the motors associated with a different one of the wheel axles on the same side or on a second side of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Grabmaier, Kurt Helf
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Patent number: 7464963Abstract: A military motor vehicle for transporting personnel, comprising a chassis on which are successively disposed a driver's cabin and an upwardly open transport structure that can be covered by a tarpaulin and has seats and/or benches. A roll protection device is disposed on the upper side of the transport structure and comprises two roll bars, each of which is disposed over a side wall of the transport structure and extends in the longitudinal direction and over the entire length thereof. Each end of each roll bar is releasably attached to the transport structure. The roll bars are interconnected by reinforcing elements that extend transverse to the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Eugen Hepner, Susanne Relsner, Eugen Schlegl, Christoph Wittmann
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Patent number: 7457411Abstract: A system and method providing secure information. An encryption key is regenerated by performing byte addition of an encryption key, encrypted data, and a hash vector based upon an encryption key. A hash vector is hashed by scanning indexed bytes of an encryption key and using indices and associated values of indices of an encryption key as indices of two bytes in the hash vector to be swapped. An authentication key is regenerated by performing byte addition of an authentication key, an auxiliary key, and a hash vector based upon an authentication key.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: New Mexico Technical Research FoundationInventor: Hamdy Soliman
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Patent number: 7445652Abstract: An evaporator system for an industrial boiler is provided and includes a heat-transfer system for generating a water-steam mixture. At least one horizontal vessel is provided for the primary separation of water and steam. At least one vertical vessel is provided and contains a water level great enough to create the necessary pressure to force the separated water to flow back from the vertical vessel to the evaporator system. The horizontal vessel and the vertical vessel are connected to one another by a piping through which the separated wet steam is transported from the horizontal vessel to the vertical vessel. The horizontal vessel has a connection to a piping for receiving water. The vertical vessel has a connection to piping for extracting dried steam from the vertical vessel.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: NEM B.V.Inventor: Johannes Cornelis Bax
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Patent number: 7441518Abstract: An internal combustion engine having an intake channel that opens into a crankcase. A first fuel channel opens into the intake channel to supply fuel thereto as a function of underpressure in the intake channel. An auxiliary channel opens into a transfer channel that fluidically connects a crankcase to the combustion chamber. A second fuel channel opens into the auxiliary channel and is connected to a storage reservoir for fuel. At least one valve controls the quantity of fuel to be supplied to the engine via the auxiliary channel. Largely fuel-free air is supplied to the engine via the intake channel during idling. During a first revolution of the crankshaft, fuel is supplied via the auxiliary channel, so that a combustible mixture can form in the combustion chamber. During a second revolution, largely fuel-free air is supplied via the auxiliary channel and the combustion chamber is scavenged with largely fuel-free air.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Claus Naegele, Hans Nickel
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Patent number: 7437455Abstract: A method is provided for detecting a system condition of a system having at least one agent by means of at least one manager coupled with the agent, whereby agents and manager communicate with one another by means of SNMP protocol.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: EMKA Beschlagteile GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Hoffman, Armin Zaspel
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Patent number: D581970Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Sungeum Music Co.Inventor: In Jae Park