Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Taylor & Aust, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7771665
    Abstract: A chemical delivery assembly includes a heating element which provides an exothermic chemical reaction, a chemical storage device configured for emitting a volatilized chemical therefrom, and a container including a bottom section and a top section, the heating element coupled with the bottom section, the chemical storage device coupled with the top section, the heating element being in thermal communication with the chemical storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Pohl, Angela M. Wiggs
  • Patent number: 7769306
    Abstract: Data may be obtained in the form of a printer control density table from a memory within a replacement toner cartridge. The cartridge may include parity bits to ensure the accuracy of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Anthony Able, William Keith Richardson, Joel Patrick Wittenauer
  • Patent number: 7763148
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper web, paperboard web or tissue web, with which a material flow of higher consistency and a material flow of lower consistency are mixed in a variable ratio over the machine width and the mixed flow is fed via a headbox as a headbox stream to a mesh section, whereby the mixing ratio between these two material flows of different consistency in the respective mixed flow acts as the set-point variable for controlling the gsm substance of the fibrous web over the machine width. In this case the ratio between the fibrous material content and the filler material content in the material flow of lower consistency is established or controlled such that the filler material fraction in the fibrous web can be established or controlled at least essentially independently of the gsm substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Reuter, Thomas Jaschinski
  • Patent number: 7762695
    Abstract: A light fixture coupling system includes a plurality of lamp housings, a plurality of elongated wireways, and a mounting plate. The plurality of elongated wireways each includes a proximal end and a distal end, each of the distal ends coupled with a corresponding lamp housing. The mounting plate is positioned within each of the proximal ends, is used to couple each of the proximal ends together relative to one another, and is configured for being used to selectively move the proximal ends away from the mounting plate to align the proximal ends relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc
    Inventor: Geza T. Lanczy
  • Patent number: 7763053
    Abstract: A device for correction of a spinal deformity. In one embodiment, the device includes a cable having a first end portion, and an opposite, second end portion attachable to a vertebra, and means for adjusting the tension of the cable so as to impose a corrective displacement on the vertebra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Gordon
  • Patent number: 7759947
    Abstract: In a method for determining the moisture of a running material web, in particular a paper web or paperboard web, the material web is scanned by way of a sensor including a microwave resonator, the resonance response of the microwave resonator is investigated, and the moisture in the material web is established in the light of this resonance response while taking account of the distance between the microwave resonator and the material web. Also disclosed is a corresponding apparatus for determining the moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: VOITH Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Kaufmann, Peter Biener, Rainer Wenzl
  • Patent number: 7757677
    Abstract: A pulse attenuator for the EGR line of an internal combustion engine in which a main flow path has a pair of branch flow paths extending from the upstream portion of a venturi. The branch flow paths have a precisely determined length so as to reintroduce pulses back to the main flow path in a way that smoothes the flow. The pulses may be reconnected to the main flow path downstream of the point at which they are extracted or at the same point. The length of the branch passages may be different to provide attenuation of pulses at different engine rpms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Laurentiu Dobrila
  • Patent number: 7754175
    Abstract: A process for preparing trichlorosilane by reacting silicon with hydrogen chloride, or silicon tetrachloride with hydrogen in the presence of silicon, and catalysts where the silicon and catalysts are laminated together and reduced in particle size prior to reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Dynamic Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon M. Bill, Jr., Carl W. Merkh
  • Patent number: 7748529
    Abstract: A surgical instrument case which includes a primary case which is substantially rectangular and has a pair of opposite side walls, a pair of opposite end walls and a bottom wall. A secondary case fits within the primary case, and the secondary case has at least one attachment element on an outside surface of the secondary case. The at least one attachment element is configured for connecting to at least one of the side walls and the end walls when the secondary case is mounted on an outside of at least one of the opposite side walls and the opposite end walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical, Inc
    Inventors: Chuck Foreman, Kraig Allen, John Conley, Dennis Brown
  • Patent number: 7748489
    Abstract: An agricultural combine for supporting an agricultural header and carrying that agricultural header to a field to harvest a crop. The combine includes a chassis, front and rear drive wheels, a hydraulic motor, a device for sensing and a controller. The front and rear drive wheels support the chassis. The hydraulic motor is drivingly coupled to the front wheels. The device for sensing senses a presence of a header mounted to the combine. The controller is configured to monitor the device for sensing and to change the specific displacement of the hydraulic motor dependent upon the presence of the agricultural header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Alan Sheidler, Johann Pierce
  • Patent number: 7748202
    Abstract: A computer-controlled method of controlling the speed of an agricultural harvester load that is coupled to an agricultural harvester engine by a power transmitting arrangement having various output speeds. The method includes the steps of electronically receiving a desired new load speed from an operator when the engine is operating at an initial engine speed, and electronically driving the power transmitting arrangement through a sequence of the various output speeds until the actual speed of the agricultural harvester load and the actual speed of the agricultural harvester engine are in the same ratio to each other as the desired new load speed and the initial engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Kirk J. Chervenka, Scott J. Petersen
  • Patent number: 7749925
    Abstract: An industrial fabric having a composite layer, the composite layer having a non-woven mesh layer structure and a yarn layer structure being parallel to the non-woven mesh layer structure. The yarn layer structure has first and second yarns, with the first yarns being connected to the second yarns to form a mesh like structure, and the yarn layer structure being embedded into the non-woven mesh layer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Antony Morton
  • Patent number: 7740029
    Abstract: A papermaking fabric includes a system of warp yarns interwoven with a system of weft yarns. The system of weft yarns includes groups of weft yarns, each of the groups being formed by a plurality of adjacent weft yarns weaving in the group side-by-side the same weave path with the warp yarns. A method of manufacturing such a papermaking fabric is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Adrian Hodson, David Holden, Bryan Gisbourne, Michael A. Gisbourne, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7739861
    Abstract: A system for determining slippage of row unit or chopping unit slip clutches of a corn head includes a microcomputer coupled to at least one vibration sensor and a display or aural annunciator. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may be identified by recognizing a speed dependent predominant frequency. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may be identified by comparing magnitudes or times of receipt of vibrations from a pair of sensors. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may also be identified by comparing vibrations received from a single sensor with known location identifying magnitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Ryan P. Mackin
  • Patent number: 7743159
    Abstract: A reusable application framework for translating between a client and an external entity negotiates a first communication protocol with the client, receives an input request from the client, and parses the input request to extract client type and use case identifications. An application object module is configured for transferring the input request. A data mapper module is configured to extract input data from input requests having the client type identification, and maps the input data to an input bean. A use case handler module specific to at least one predefined task associated with the external entity receives the input bean. A broker module is configured to communicate with the external entity using a second communication protocol and inserts the input bean into a data stream of the second communication protocol for transfer to the external entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Anthony Francis Catalfano, William Robert Norris
  • Patent number: 7735438
    Abstract: An agricultural seeding machine includes at least one tool bar, and a plurality of row crop units, with each row crop unit coupled with a respective tool bar. Each row crop unit includes a seed meter; a ground engaging wheel; a continuously variable transmission (CVT) driven by the wheel; and a rotatable drive element coupled between the CVT and the seed meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Paul R. Riewerts
  • Patent number: 7726111
    Abstract: A belt pickup header for an agricultural harvesting machine includes a frame having opposite ends, a belt pickup carried by the frame, and a pair of suspension arms carrying the belt pickup. Each suspension arm is pivotally coupled with a respective frame end. A pair of compression springs are each positioned between a respective suspension arm and corresponding frame end. Each spring vertically supports a respective suspension arm. A pair of fluid shocks are each interconnected between a respective suspension arm and corresponding frame end. Each fluid shock damps movement of the corresponding suspension arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Sheldon Joseph Grywacheski, Nelson John Klapak, Leslie Gregory Hill, Derek Stanley Rude, Jobey Mathew Schnepf
  • Patent number: 7727361
    Abstract: A fabric, in particular for a paper making machine, includes a plurality of helically wound coil members arranged side by side with respect to each other in an intermeshing manner, such that connecting channels are formed by adjacent intermeshing coil members, a hinge member being introduced into and extending along each connecting channel for interconnecting adjacent coil members, a stuffer channel being formed within each coil member extending along and between two connecting channels associated to a respective coil member, at least a part of the stuffer channels being filled with stuffer members extending longitudinally within the stuffer channels, a stuffer material being provided at least in regions of the fabric for filling spaces formed within the fabric between the coil members, the hinge members and the stuffer members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Antony Morton, Justin Alan Payne, David Stuart Ponton, John Jeffrey
  • Patent number: 7722741
    Abstract: This invention relates to a machine for the production of a paper web, paperboard web or tissue web, having a roller with a circumferential surface and having an endless belt, in particular a transfer belt, which is wrapped around the circumferential surface of the roller in sections and has a bottom side which in the wrap zone can be brought into contact with the circumferential surface, as the result of which the endless belt and/or the roller provide a storage capacity suitable for accommodating at least in part the fluid which gets into the wrap zone between the bottom side and the circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Robert Koplin, Klaus Hermann, Georg Kleiser, Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Patent number: 7721769
    Abstract: A fabric for use on a paper machine includes a plurality of filaments woven together. At least a portion of the filaments have a generally flat machine side base, a generally flat web side face, and a pair of generally flat side walls extending between the base and the face. The portion of the filaments having a generally trapezoidal shaped cross section is defined by the base, the face and the pair of side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Lippi A. Fernandes