Patents Represented by Attorney Steven, Davis, Miller & Mosher, L.L.P.
  • Patent number: 6965037
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an aminocarbazole by catalytically reducing a nitrocarbazole, wherein as a catalyst is used an active nickel-based catalyst prepared by contacting a nickel-based catalyst with an alkali and an iron compound under a hydrogen gas or inert gas atmosphere in an inert solvent, and according to the method of the present invention, decrease in reaction speed, decrease in yield of a product or the like depending upon the lot of the starting nitrocarbazoles can be prevented, and aminocarbazoles can be produced in a good yield constantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Kamikawa, Osamu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 6955273
    Abstract: Collapsible container, preferably a collapsible bulk container, for the transport and storage of fluent and particle bulk goods. The bulk container includes a carrying base member which is provided with skids, collapsible side walls, preferably a so called liner in the form of a bag shaped inner layer and a lid. The side walls are moveably attached to the base member via hinges and that adjacent side walls are joinable. The lid is provided with one or more profiles, which profiles are intended to exert pressure on a part of the upper side of a filled liner, whereby the possibility for the liner to move in relation to the collapsible container during transport is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Arca Systems AB
    Inventor: Peter Hartwall
  • Patent number: 6924307
    Abstract: Aminobutylic acid derivatives of the formula (I): wherein the symbols are as defined in specification; and non-toxic salts thereof. Because of inhibiting matrix metalloproteinase, the compounds of the formula (I) are useful for prevention and/or treatment of diseases, for example, rheumatoid diseases, arthrosteitis, osteoarthritis, unusual bone resorption, osteoporosis, periodontitis, interstitial nephritis, arteriosclerosis, pulmonary emphysema, cirrhosis, cornea injury, cornea ulcer, metastasis, invasion or growth of tumor cells, autoimmune disease, disease caused by vascular emigration or infiltration of leukocytes, arterialization, multiple sclerosis, arota aneurysm, endometriosis, restenosis after PTCA, unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanji Takahashi, Tsuneyuki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 6920732
    Abstract: Flooring material comprising board shaped floor elements which are provided with edges, a lower side and a decorative upper surface. The floor elements are intended to be joined by means of separate joining profile. All four edges are provided with one notch-like groove each. The grooves are arrange parallel to its respective edge. The joining profiles are provided with lips arrange in pairs. The lips are intended to each be received by one of the grooves so that the floor elements with the grooves at the adjacent edges will be guided or fixed vertically via the lips of a joining profile. The lips are joined by a middle section of the joining profile. The grooves are furthermore provided with an undercut while the lips are provided with hooks that matches the undercut whereby adjacent floor elements will be guided or fixed horizontally via the undercuts and the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventor: Göran Mårtensson
  • Patent number: 6921800
    Abstract: A modified aluminum oxy compound (A) obtained by reacting an aluminum oxy compound (a), water (b) and a compound having a hydroxyl group (c); a polymerization catalyst component comprising the modified aluminum oxy compound; a polymerization catalyst obtained by contacting said modified aluminum oxy compound (A), a transition metal compound (B) and optionally an organoaluminum compound (C) and a specified boron compound; and a process for producing an olefin polymer or an alkenyl aromatic hydrocarbon polymer with the polymerization catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki Fujita, Masaaki Nabika, Tatsuya Miyatake, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Yoshinori Seki, Nobuo Oi
  • Patent number: 6910050
    Abstract: An animal registry system and method utilizing information either borne by an animal or obtained from the normal abode of the animal to obtain veterinarian, search and/or rescue, concierge and other services to the animal with payment guaranteed to the provider of the services. The animal registry system is operatively connected to a communication system providing an automated response to incidents involving the registered animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Inventor: Harvey Gustave Pawlick
  • Patent number: 6903041
    Abstract: There are provided; (i) a solid catalyst component obtained by contacting a trivalent titanium atom-containing solid catalyst component precursor (C) with a halogeno compound (A) of the 13 or 14 group of elements in the periodic table of the elements and an electron donor (B), or a solid catalyst component obtained by contacting an intermediate product with a titanium-halogen bond-carrying compound (D), the intermediate product being obtained by contacting the solid catalyst component precursor (C) with a halogeno compound (A?) of the 14 group of elements in the periodic table of the elements and the electron donor (B), or a solid catalyst component comprising a magnesium atom, a titanium atom, a halogen atom and an electron donor and having a relative surface area of not more than 30 m2/g, the catalyst component being superior in a particle form, and (ii) a catalyst comprising the solid catalyst component and an organoaluminum compound, the catalyst being high in polymerization activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Kumamoto, Makoto Satoh, Hideki Ohshima
  • Patent number: 6903228
    Abstract: Citalopram and other phthalanes are made by reacting a salt of a compound of formula (II) where R1 is halogen and R2 is halogen, trifluoromethyl, cyano or R—CO— where R is a C1-4 alkyl group, with cuprous cyanide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Cipla Limited
    Inventors: Yusuf Khwaja Hamied, Rajendra Narayaurao Kankan, Dhanmaraj Ramachandra Rao
  • Patent number: 6898911
    Abstract: A thin decorative thermosetting laminate of postforming quality is glued to a longitudinal carrier to form a floor strip. The laminate has a thermosetting resin as well as hard particles impregnated therein to increase the abrasion resistance of the laminate. The carrier generally has a cross section of a dilatation, transition or a finishing profile, depending on the intended use of the floor strip. The floor strip has a tab portion on a surface that engages a channel on a floor tile or a reducer. The tab portion locks the floor strip into place and prevents movement of the floor tile or the reducer with respect to the floor strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: PERGO (Europe) AB
    Inventors: Sven Kornfalt, Per Bengtsson, Hans Sjolin, Oliver Stanchfield
  • Patent number: 6894130
    Abstract: A catalyst for addition polymerization obtained by contacting (A) an organoaluminum compound, (B) a specific boron compound and (C) a solid inorganic compound, and a process for producing an addition polymer characterized by polymerizing an addition-polymerizable monomer in the presence of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Wataru Hirahata, Yoshinori Seki
  • Patent number: 6893713
    Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of a decorative laminate, which laminate comprises an upper decorative and abrasion resistant thermosetting laminate layer and a carrying core. The upper side of the core is provided with the abrasion resistant thermosetting laminate with a dampening foil of an elastomer arranged between the upper side of the core and the abrasion resistant thermosetting laminate, which elastomer and which thermosetting laminate are joined with each other and with the core by means of pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventors: Ake Sjoberg, Ann-Charlott Johansson
  • Patent number: 6892185
    Abstract: An inventive procurement system includes a requisition system for special item purchases that are not found when searching a catalog database. Using the requisition system the buyer is provided with the desired item while the information associated with the requisition is selectively added to a rule-based knowledge base as well as to an item database. In a preferred embodiment a common language generator has been used to normalize free form data using pre-determined rules to place the data into a class/attribute/value relationship. By having the item requisition follow the same relationship, the pre-determined rules may be updated and the free-form data associated with the item properly coded for inclusion into an item database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: e-Plus Capital, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Van Etten, Corey Prator
  • Patent number: 6888147
    Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of a decorative surface element, which element comprises a base layer and a decorative upper surface. A radiation curing lacquer is printed in a predetermined pattern as an uppermost layer on the decorative upper surface. The radiation curing lacquer covers only parts of the decorative upper surface whereby the lacquer is exposed to radiation whereby it cures. A surface structure is hereby achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventors: Krister Hansson, Johan Lundgren, Hakan Wernersson
  • Patent number: 6881689
    Abstract: A product having a metal-fabric joint includes forming a fabric anchoring component by casting a low melting point yet high compressive strength material into a cavity in a metal component. The product includes (a) a metal housing including an interior entrance, at least first and second opposed interior walls, and an interior end opposite the interior entrance, the at least first and second opposed interior walls and the interior end defining an interior cavity; (b) a fabric; (c) a fabric anchor assembly; and (d) a castable material disposed in the interior cavity so as to envelop the fabric and the fabric anchor assembly. A method of fabricating the product includes the steps of (a) anchoring the fabric with the fabric anchor assembly; (b) inserting the anchored fabric in the interior cavity; (c) providing the interior cavity with the castable material so as to envelop the anchored fabric; and (d) solidifying the castable material to a cast material so as to form the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: ILC Dover LP
    Inventor: Donald R. Cohee
  • Patent number: 6860074
    Abstract: The invention is a joint cover assembly for covering a gap adjacent an edge of a panel that covers a sub-surface, and a method of covering such a gap. The assembly includes a molding having a foot, a first arm, and a second arm. The foot is positioned along a longitudinal axis, and the first arm extends generally perpendicularly from the foot. The second arm extends generally perpendicularly from the foot. A tab depends generally perpendicularly from the first panel engaging surface. At least one of the tab and the foot engage the edge in order to tightly fit within the gap. The method includes the steps of placing the foot in the gap, pressing the respective panel engaging surfaces into contact with respective panels, and configuring at least one of the tab and the foot to cooperate to retain the molding in the gap when the assembly is in an installed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventor: Oliver Stanchfield
  • Patent number: 6854235
    Abstract: Flooring material including floor boards (1) with an essentially square, rectangular or rhomboidal shape. The floor boards (1) are provided with edges (2), a horizontal lower side (5) and a horizontal decorative upper surface (3). The floor boards (1) are provided lower joining lips (10) at two adjacent edges (2) while the two remaining edges (2) are provided with upper joining lips (20). The lower joining lips (10) are provided essentially vertical lower lip surfaces 911) arranged parallel to the closest edge (2). The lower surfaces (11) are intended to interact with mainly vertical upper lip surfaces (21) arranged on the upper joining lips (20). Two joined adjacent floor boards (1) are hereby locked together in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventor: Goran Martensson
  • Patent number: D504181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventor: Oliver Stanchfield
  • Patent number: D504730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventors: Sven Kornfalt, Per Bengtsson, Hans Sjolin, Oliver Stanchfield
  • Patent number: D504731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventor: Oliver Stanchfield
  • Patent number: D505211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Pergo (Europe) AB
    Inventor: Oliver Stanchfield