Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Seidel, Gonda, Lavorgna & Monaco, PC.
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Patent number: 6196300Abstract: A heat sink comprising a conductive plate (1) to be applied onto the surface to be cooled, the thickness of which gradually increases from the edges (4) towards a central portion (5) according to a curvilinear profile (6) having an upwardly turned concavity, so that an air flow hitting the plate is deflected towards its edges with a substantially horizontal outlet direction. The conductive plate (1) has preferably arranged thereon a plurality of cooling fins (7) extending in a substantially radial way from the central portion (5) to the edges (4) of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2000Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Inventor: Maurizio Checchetti
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Patent number: 6197356Abstract: Common allergenic foods are made hypoallergenic by treatment with super critical fluid or critical liquid gas such as super critical carbon dioxide or liquid nitrogen. The treatment of foods with liquid nitrogen or super critical carbon dioxide also enhances the functionality of fat, so that the total fat in the food can be reduced while retaining the good taste of the food.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1998Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: ImmunoPath Profile, Inc.Inventor: Leonard S. Girsh
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Patent number: 6193117Abstract: Glove fitting apparatus including cuff holding means (14) adapted to hold open the cuff opening of a glove, and adapted to release said glove after insertion of a user's hand, and support means (20) for supporting the cuff holding means. The glove may be released directly from the holding means, or alternatively, the glove may be released by way of releasing of the holding means from the support means. The retaining means may include stiffening means wherein the support means releasably holds the stiffening means and the glove supported thereby. It is also preferred that the stiffening means includes a ring assembly (14) comprising two rings which fit closely one inside the other such that when the opening of the glove is fitted over the inner ring, the outer ring may be tightly engaged about the inner ring to clamp the opening of the glove between the two rings.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Inventor: Kevin Keith Poschelk
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Patent number: 6192869Abstract: A fuel tank has a delivery unit which is arranged within the tank body and which has a reservoir. The delivery unit can be introduced into the tank body through a closable opening in the wall thereof. The tank further includes a filling level measuring device which is arranged outside the reservoir of the delivery unit and which can also be introduced into the tank body through the opening. The measuring device can be introduced into the tank body separately from the delivery unit and is held in its operative position by a holder mounted to the opening. The holder can be in the form of a ring mounted to the edge of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG.Inventors: Rainer Hahner, RĂ¼diger Walter, Axel Wagner, Andreas G. R. Puempel, Lou Savoni, Jim Siekmann
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Patent number: 6194218Abstract: Blood samples are stabilized for methemoglobin determination with a buffer composition containing (a) carbon monoxide-containing water; (b) sodium tetraborate or potassium tetraborate; and (c) KCN or NaCN. The buffer composition preferably may also have an erythrocytolysis agent. The buffer fixes the valence state of heme iron at a concentration representative of the blood at the time of collection, and maintains that fixed state for an extended period of time preventing further methemoglobin formation. The buffer also prevents reduction of existing target analyte, i.e., methemoglobin (ferric hemoglobin, Fe3+ hemoglobin) to normal reduced hemoglobin (ferrous hemoglobin, Fe2+ hemoglobin).Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance FoundationInventors: Fredric Rieders, Anthony J. Macherone
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Patent number: 6193146Abstract: A beaded-top twist container is provided with an inner layer and an outer layer, the outer layer being concentric with the inner layer. The inner layer is joined to the outer layer at the top and bottom edges by a bead. At least one rotatable segment is formed from the outer layer by separating the outer layer into at least three segments, the separations being formed by scoring through the outer layer without destroying the integrity of the inner layer. At least one rotatable segment is formed adjacent to a top or bottom bead by forming a separation adjacent the bead between the inner and outer layers.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2000Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.Inventors: J. Mark Morrow, Mickey Braddock, Floyd Boatwright
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Patent number: 6192414Abstract: A system for and a method of managing a communications network through the use of multiple network connections. The system prepares at least two transport service providers of a node for establishing a network connection with corresponding transport service providers of another node and associates the at least two transport service providers with each other and with a requesting application. The system monitors network connection condition and determines availability and suitability of each network connection. The system selectively transmits information via a selected network connection. The system seamlessly establishes the multiple connections and transmits the information over the selected network connection and is transparent to the application.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Moore Products Co.Inventor: Michael S. Horn
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Patent number: 6190191Abstract: An assembly for use with a compact fluorescent lamp includes a socket and an adapter. The socket includes a housing having a top surface and a recess extending downward from the top surface toward the bottom end of the socket. The recess is shaped and dimensioned to receive the starter housing of the compact fluorescent lamp. Provided on the top surface are a plurality of spaced apart holes, each hole being positioned to receive one of the terminal pins of the fluorescent lamp. The adapter is designed to connect the compact fluorescent lamps having different types of base configurations with the socket. The adapter includes a base from which a starter housing and a plurality of terminal pins extend downward. The starter housing is positioned to be telescopically received by the recess of the socket. The starter housing is surrounded by the terminal pins that are positioned away from one another in order to be inserted in the spaced apart holes of the socket.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2000Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Angelo Brothers CompanyInventor: Barton A. Pasternak
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Patent number: 6186252Abstract: A power chair is provided comprising a frame transversely foldable between operating and transport positions. A seat is connected to the frame, with a pair of drive wheels also connected to the frame. The drive wheels are rotatable about a transverse axis below a portion of the seat supporting an occupant's thighs. The power chair further includes motors for driving respective drive wheels. Perspective motor/drive wheel combinations are pivotally connected to the frame. At least one ground-engaging idler wheel is connected to the frame, located rearward of the drive wheels. At least one anti-tip wheel is positioned above ground, forward of the drive wheels, and connected to the frame for movement relative to the frame upon encountering an obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Pride Mobility Products, CorporationInventors: Walter E. Schaffner, James P. Mulhern, Gerald J. White, Stephen J. Antonishak
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Patent number: 6187257Abstract: The invention presents an apparatus and method for dross removal from coating lines. The invention utilizes magnets to collect dross either in suspension or which has accumulated at or near the bottom of a coating pot. The invention utilizes the magnetic properties of the dross to separate the dross from the non-magnetic coating metal. The use of magnets allows for removal of dross from the coating metal without simultaneously removing valuable coating metal from the coating pot.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Inductotherm Corp.Inventors: Hans G. Heine, Oleg S. Fishman
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Patent number: 6187885Abstract: Melt processable copolymers of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene, containing from about 1% to about 20% hexafluoropropylene by weight, are prepared by emulsion polymerization of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene in a stirred aqueous reaction medium. The reaction medium is formed by charging to a heated reactor, water, vinylidene fluoride, an initiator to start the polymerization, and a water-soluble surfactant capable of emulsifying both the initiator and the reaction mass during polymerization. Additional amounts of vinylidene fluoride and initiator are fed to the reaction medium to continue polymerization of the vinylidene fluoride monomer until from about 50% to about 90% of the total weight of the vinylidene fluoride monomer utilized in the process has been added to the reaction medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1995Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Atofina Chemicals, Inc.Inventor: Leonard Aloysius Barber
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Patent number: 6180678Abstract: A method of treating age related behavorial problems in dogs is disclosed. The method involves administering adrafinil or a metabolite thereof to an animal in need of such treatment.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: V{acute over (e)}toquinol S.A.Inventors: William Norton Milgram, Christina Teresa Siwak, Fredrique Woebrle-Fontaine, Beth Anne Adams, Philippe Gruet
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Patent number: 6179343Abstract: A pipe elbow is provided having two parts, each part having an arcuate segment. The arcuate segment of the first part fits sealably into the arcuate segment of the second part. By severing a portion of the arcuate segment of the first part at an angle needed for a specific run of pipe and inserting it into the arcuate segment of the second part, the assembled elbow will conform to the required angle. In addition, a sloped shoulder on the outside of the first part fits in close proximity to the end of the second part to ensure a extension of the first part into the second part in order to meet industry standards for minimum overlap of mating parts. An angled end on the arcuate segment of the second part may also be provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1997Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Inventor: Dennis S. Byrnes
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Patent number: 6180333Abstract: Methods of grading tumors and prognosticating survival rates of cancer patients by determination of p27 expression levels in tissues samples from tumors are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1998Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Thomas Jefferson UniversityInventor: Antonio Giordano
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Patent number: 6180767Abstract: Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers are conjugated to a ligand which is capable of binding to a cell surface receptor. The ligand facilitates cellular uptake of the PNA oligomer. Where the ligand is a peptide, the conjugate may be produced as a unitary molecule by first synthesizing the peptide ligand by solid phase or solution peptide synthesis, followed by synthesis of the PNA oligomer as an extension of the peptide ligand. The PNA oligomer base sequence is selected to hybridize to a target polynucleotide sequence by either triplex (dsDNA) or duplex (ssDNA; RNA) formation.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1997Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Thomas Jefferson UniversityInventors: Eric Wickstrom, Soumitra Basu
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Patent number: 6177076Abstract: Methods of treating bladder cancer in a patient by administration of wildtype vaccinia virus are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1998Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Thomas Jefferson UniversityInventors: Edmund C. Lattime, Michael J. Mastrangelo
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Patent number: 6176335Abstract: A power wheelchair has a frame, a seat connected to the frame, a pair of drive wheels connected to the frame and rotatable about transverse axis below a portion of the seat supporting the wheelchair occupant's thighs and at least one ground-engaging idler wheel connected to the frame behind the drive wheels.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1996Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Pride Mobility Products, CorporationInventors: Walter E. Schaffner, James P. Mulhern, Stephen J. Antonishak
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Patent number: 6174694Abstract: The invention includes a method of phosphorylating a serine containing substrate by incubating the substrate with ATP and an enzyme that is hsRec2 or muRec2 or a derivative thereof. The natural substrates of the kinase activity of Rec2 are the cell cycle control proteins such as p53 and cyclin E. The over expression of Rec2 is known to cause cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis and the invention discloses that these effects are kinase mediated. Accordingly, the invention provides a method of assessing antagonists and agonists of Rec2, which antagonists and agonists would have pharmacological activity. The invention further discloses that there is specific binding between hsRec2 and at least three cell cycle control proteins: p53, PCNA and cdc2.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1998Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignees: Thomas Jefferson University, Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., Valigen (US), Inc.Inventors: Pamela A. Havre, Michael C. Rice, William K. Holloman, Eric B. Kmiec
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Patent number: D436930Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.Inventor: Nathan J. Butler
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Patent number: D438066Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Cannon Hygiene LimitedInventors: Marshall Beach, Jeff Calvert, Bill Auty, John Diment, Audrey Morris, Keith Rick, Peter Payne, Russell Waite