Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Ryan Schneider
  • Patent number: 6488605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission system, especially for use in a motorized vehicle. More particularly, the present invention discloses the use of a flywheel for assisting an engine in speeding up when acceleration is requested. The flywheel (135) is coupled to an epicyclic gearing (G) having three rotational members (41, 42, 43); this epicyclic gearing (G) is further coupled to a load (L) and to an engine (E), in parallel to a transmission unit (MT; CVT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V.
    Inventors: Roëll M. van Druten, Marc A. Mussaeus, Bas G. Vroemen, Alexander F. A. Serrarens, Pieter A. Veenhuizen
  • Patent number: 6478689
    Abstract: A golf club includes a shaft, a head attached to the tip end of the shaft, and a grip attached at the butt end of the shaft. The 14-inch balance is D0 or more. The club has initial velocity per equivalent pendulum length Vb/Lp that is larger than −3.57 Lc+64.58 when Lc represents the club length. The initial velocity Vb is defined as: Vb=1.8 Mh(56.22 Lc−35.16 Mc−39.77 Lp+31.61)/(Mh+0.0455) where Mh is the mass of the head (kg) and Mc is the total mass of the club.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Nizunot Corporation
    Inventor: Goro Hisamatsu
  • Patent number: 6477819
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing (folding) cartons or for closing the same by applying adhesive strips (13) to folding flaps (11) during an upward movement of the cartons (10) by a closing conveyor (21), the closed cartons (10) being transferred in the region of an upper transfer station (33) to a removal conveyor (22) and defective cartons (43), previously detected by monitoring, being able to be conveyed past the removal conveyor (22) into the region of a transfer station for such defective cartons (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Wolfgang Heinzig
  • Patent number: 6478523
    Abstract: Bale collector comprising a roller bed with a number of horizontal rollers, which are positioned at right angles to a direction of travel and which are suitable for receiving thereon successive bales from a press outlet of a baling press and for having bales pushed backwards onto each other, whereby the roller bed comprises, viewed in the direction of travel, a front part and a rear part, which can swivel about a horizontal axis under control of control means which are coupled to the roller bed parts for moving a rear end of the rear roller bed part between an upper position at a height which allows conveyance of the rear end of the rear part of a bale over the rear part and from the rear part onto the ground, and a lower position of the rear end of the rear part at a height in which the rear part is inclined downwards with respect to the front part for allowing expedited conveyance of the bale from the rear part onto the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Meijer Ten Post Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Harke D. Meijer
  • Patent number: 6474793
    Abstract: An ink-jet printer several pixels lying, for example, on different image lines are formed essentially simultaneously by sending the necessary ink droplets to the appropriate pixels and by intercepting the ink droplets not required. In order to prevent ink droplets which are sent to different pixels from influencing each other, the invention provides for the ink droplets which are sent to a pixel to be distributed essentially homogeneously over the series of ink droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Stork Digital Imaging, B.V.
    Inventors: Robertus J. Th. Van Kempen, Paulus J. Th. Eggenkamp, Martinus G. J. Manders
  • Patent number: 6476084
    Abstract: A process is provided for recycling heterogeneous waste including the initial step of subjecting the heterogeneous waste to pyrolysis to produce a synthesis gas stream comprising at least carbon monoxide and hydrogen and a molten pyrolysis product stream having a variable composition comprising at least a mineral material and a metallic material. The molten pyrolysis product stream is converted to a plurality of commercial grade solid materials. Likewise, the synthesis gas stream is also converted into at least one commercial grade chemical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Rineco Chemical Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: John P. Whitney
  • Patent number: 6464482
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller vane pump suitable for pumping transmission fluid in an automatic transmission for motor vehicles. The pump is provided with a pump housing (2), a rotatable carrier (3) being located in the interior of the pump housing (2), a cam ring (5) surrounding the carrier (3) in radial direction, and roller elements (7) being provided in slots (6) in the carrier periphery. The spaces between the pump housing (2), the carrier (3), the cam ring (5) and the roller elements (7) define a number of pump chambers (8). Furthermore, the pump is provided with feed apertures (9) for allowing a flow of fluid to a pump chamber (8) and with discharge apertures (10) for allowing a flow of fluid from a pump chamber (8). According to the invention constructional measurements are taken to avoid the occurrence of cavitation and to obtain higher pump efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Van Doorne's Transmissie, B.V.
    Inventors: Francis Maria Antonius Van Der Sluis, Johannes Gerardus Ludovicus Maria Van Spijk
  • Patent number: 6447277
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller vane pump suitable for pumping transmission fluid in an automatic transmission for motor vehicles. The pump is provided with a pump housing (2), a rotatable carrier (3) being located in the interior of the pump housing (2), a cam ring (5) surrounding the carrier (3) in radial direction, and roller elements (7) being provided in slots (6) in the carrier periphery. The spaces between the pump housing (2), the carrier (3), the cam ring (5) and the roller elements (7) define a number of pump chambers (8). Furthermore, the pump is provided with feed apertures (9) for allowing a flow of fluid to a pump chamber (8) and with discharge apertures (10) for allowing a flow of fluid from a pump chamber (8). According to the invention constructional measurements are taken to avoid the occurrence of cavitation and to obtain higher pump efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Van Dorrne's Transmissie, B.V.
    Inventors: Francis Maria Antonius van der Sluis, Johannes Gerardus Ludovicus Maria Van Spijk
  • Patent number: 6445134
    Abstract: A plasma pinch having an inner/outer coaxial tube arrangement, which nested tube arrangement yields a higher-performance pinchlamp than is capable with a single-tube configuration. Further, each tube contains a separate gas, the inner tube filled with Argon, and the outer tube filled with Helium. The inner/outer coaxial tube arrangement of the present invention facilitates the use of an inner tube to contain a volume of Argon gas as the working gas. The outer tube is coaxial with the inner tube, surrounding the inner tube with contained Helium gas. The configuration of an outer tube filled with Helium presents external pressures to the inner tube. The contained Helium gas in the outer tube, among other things, compresses and supports the walls of the inner tube, enabling the inner tube to be smaller in diameter than prior art plasma chambers, which chambers would shatter if made with as small a diameter as the present inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Environmental Surface Technologies
    Inventor: John F. Asmus
  • Patent number: 6436172
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for separating condensable substances from gases or gas mixtures with the use of porous materials including the steps of employing as adsorbents substances or materials suitable for capillary condensation and cyclically performing the method. The method can be used to separate water from air. The porous materials have a pore structure adapted to the environmental or climatic conditions present at the site of utilization of the method. The step of cyclically performing the method can be performing a plurality of times in succession separation by capillary condensation of the condensable substances in the porous materials and desorption of the condensed substances from the porous materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Universitat Bremen
    Inventor: Norbert Räbiger
  • Patent number: 6427246
    Abstract: The inventive glove comprises a thumb holder (11), an index finger holder (12), a palm portion (14) and a back portion (15). A protective member (2) is mounted on a base portion (13) between the thumb holder (11) and the index finger holder (12). The protective member (2) includes a bent portion (21) extending from the base portion (13) toward the palm portion (14) and bent along the base portion (13) and a flat portion (22) extending from the base portion (13) toward the back portion (15), and has a substantially L-shaped section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Doi, Toshiaki Nishimura, Kazuhiro Kume
  • Patent number: 6419090
    Abstract: Tray packs (12) are packs made of cardboard or the like which are open at the top and have side walls, namely longitudinal walls (13, 14) and transverse walls (15, 16), of a low height. In order to improve the dimensional stability of the tray pack (12), upright corner supports 925, 26) which are angled in cross section are provided in the region of corners, the height of said corner supports corresponding approximately to the height of the individual packs or articles. A base wall (17) comprises base tabs, namely transverse tabs (18, 19) and longitudinal tabs (20, 21), which correspond, in shape and size, to recesses (29, 30) which are formed above the side walls (13 . . . 16) in conjunction with the corner supports (25, 26). This means that blanks for the tray pack (12) can be produced in a largely waste-free manner from a continuous material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Hugo Mutschall
  • Patent number: 6416303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller vane pump suitable for pumping transmission fluid in an automatic transmission for motor vehicles. The pump is provided with a pump housing (2), a rotatable carrier (3) being located in the interior of the pump housing (2), a cam ring (5) surrounding the carrier (3) in radial direction, and roller elements (7) being provided in slots (6) in the carrier periphery. The spaces between the pump housing (2), the carrier (3), the cam ring (5) and the roller elements (7) define a number of pump chambers (8). Furthermore, the pump is provided with feed apertures (9) for allowing a flow of fluid to a pump chamber (8) and with discharge apertures (10) for allowing a flow of fluid from a pump chamber (8). According to the invention constructional measurements are taken to avoid the occurrence of cavitation and to obtain higher pump efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Van's Doorne's Transmissie B.V.
    Inventors: Francis Maria Antonius Van Der Sluis, Johannes Gerardus Ludovicus Maria Van Spijk
  • Patent number: 6413066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller vane pump suitable for pumping transmission fluid in an automatic transmission for motor vehicles. The pump is provided with a pump housing (2), a rotatable carrier (3) being located in the interior of the pump housing (2), a cam ring (5) surrounding the carrier (3) in radial direction, and roller elements (7) being provided in slots (6) in the carrier periphery. The spaces between the pump housing (2), the carrier (3), the cam ring (5) and the roller elements (7) define a number of pump chambers (8). Furthermore, the pump is provided with feed apertures (9) for allowing a flow of fluid to a pump chamber (8) and with discharge apertures (10) for allowing a flow of fluid from a pump chamber (8). According to the invention constructional measurements are taken to avoid the occurrence of cavitation and to obtain higher pump efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V.
    Inventors: Francis Maria Antonius Van Der Sluis, Johannes Gerardus Ludovicus Maria Van Spijk
  • Patent number: 6412630
    Abstract: Cigarette pack of the hinge-lid box type, comprising a box part (11) and a lid (12), there being formed, in the bottom region of the box part (11), an opening (25) which can be closed by a closure flap (24) formed as part of a blank of the hinge-lid box. The opening (25) and closure flap (24) extend around the corner in the region of a box rear wall (14) and of a base wall (17). In the region of the opening (25), a chamber (35) is formed within the hinge-lid box in order to accommodate, for example, folded printed carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Henry Buse
  • Patent number: 6409199
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for long vehicles to make sharp turns on city streets without running up on the curb. The back wheels of the vehicle are steered so that when the semi or truck is making a sharp turn, the rear wheels continue straight down the street to the intersection and then turn, even though the semi and the front of the trailer have already turned in a normal manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Inventor: Joseph James Boyd
  • Patent number: 6397567
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for introducing elongate, in particular cylindrical, articles, namely packs (10), into a carton (15). The packs (10) arrive individually, and at a spacing from one another, on a feed conveyor (18) and are pushed off from the latter transversely, by a pack pusher (26), into a collecting station (19). Layers (17) comprising a plurality of packs (10) located one beside the other are formed in said collecting station. The layers (17) are then raised one after the other and introduced into a grouping subassembly in order to form groups (16) comprising a plurality of layers. In each case one group, in turn, is pushed into a carton (15) which is open on at least one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & CO)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Wolfgang Heinzig
  • Patent number: 6382924
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller vane pump suitable for pumping transmission fluid in an automatic transmission for motor vehicles. The pump is provided with a pump housing (2), a rotatable carrier (3) being located in the interior of the pump housing (2), a cam ring (5) surrounding the carrier (3) in radial direction, and roller elements (7) being provided in slots (6) in the carrier periphery. The spaces between the pump housing (2), the carrier (3), the cam ring (5) and the roller elements (7) define a number of pump chambers (8). Furthermore, the pump is provided with feed apertures (9) for allowing a flow of fluid to a pump chamber (8) and with discharge apertures (10) for allowing a flow of fluid from a pump chamber (8). According to the invention constructional measurements are taken to avoid the occurrence of cavitation and to obtain higher pump efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V.
    Inventors: Francis Maria Antonius Van Der Sluis, Johannes Gerardus Ludovicus Maria Van Spijk
  • Patent number: 6378986
    Abstract: A print head for an ink jet printer includes a number of ink nozzles for producing ink jets, charging device for charging the ink jets, and also further components assembling the print head. The ink nozzles and the charging device are accommodated in an ink jet module which can easily be removed from the further components. Furthermore, the ink jet module is composed of an ink jet unit and a charging unit, which preferably can also be easily disassembled. As a result of this modular construction of the print head, it is ensured that in the event of faults it is possible to replace only part of the print head, instead of the entire print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Stork Digital Imaging B.V.
    Inventor: Franciscus W. J. G. Van De Kruys
  • Patent number: 6374633
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved dry ice pellet manufacturing system including an automated helical injection system, a chamber having a greater filter screen ratio than prior art designs and a compressing mechanism. The automated helical injection system enables injected CO2 to follow an approximately helical path inside the extrusion chamber, such that CO2 snow begins to form, and is packed, at the die end of the chamber. The automated injection subsystem provides maximum ice production, the present system utilizes both staggered injection rates and a valve arrangement that improve (increases) upon the amount of CO2 injected into the extrusion chamber over time. The present invention further utilizes a chamber having a greater filter screen ratio than currently is used in the art. The extrusion chamber of the improved pelletizer of the present invention has approximately a 35% or greater filter screen ratio; filter screen ratio being defined as the ratio of filter screen area to chamber bore area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Tomco2 Equipment Co.
    Inventors: Brian Greer, James L. Tharp, Jr.