Patents Represented by Attorney Taylor IP
  • Patent number: 8351213
    Abstract: An electrical assembly including a substantially planar substrate having at least one recess therein and a plurality of electrical components. The electrical components are positioned in the at least one recess and include a first electrical component and a second electrical component. Each of the electrical components has a body and an electrical connection. The electrical connection of the first electrical component and the electrical connection of the second electrical component are aligned with each other when the body of the first electrical component is in a recess and the body of the second electrical component is in a recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Inventors: Brian Gorrell, Austin A. Saylor
  • Patent number: 8349136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the energy balance of a forming section in a machine for producing fibrous webs, in which a fiber suspension, which is fed to the forming section by way of a material ramp after the immobility point is reached, is passed through at least two dewatering units within a compression zone and to a subsequent functional unit. The invention is characterized in that a setpoint value for a target dryness to be set is predefined based on the existing dewatering elements as a function of a theoretical maximum achievable dryness under plant conditions in the area of the transition zone, said setpoint being selected such that it is less than the theoretical maximum achievable dryness but is equal to or greater than a required minimum dryness in the area of the transition zone, and that the target dryness is controlled by lowering the inlet dryness at one of the last dewatering units disposed in the direction of passage of the fiber suspension within the compression zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 8348959
    Abstract: An angular surgical driver including a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an angled housing and a plurality of pins. The first rotatable member and second rotatable member are angularly associated with each other. The angled housing is rotatably connected to the first rotatable member and the second rotatable member. A plurality of pins drivingly connecting the first rotatable member to the second rotatable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd A. Wolford, Mark Nordman, Warren Scott Gareiss
  • Patent number: 8341954
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic coupling has an impeller and a turbine wheel that together form a toroidal working chamber. Viewed as an axial section through the hydrodynamic coupling the working chamber has a circular or essentially circular cross-section with a convexity in the axial direction on the circumference in the radially outer area of said turbine wheel and/or in the radially inner area of said impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Schips
  • Patent number: 8344889
    Abstract: An RFID tag includes a circuit board assembly having a substrate comprised of a material with a high dielectric constant of greater than approximately 4 and having a first side and a second side. A patch antenna is mounted to the first side of the substrate. A metallic ground plane is mounted to the second side of the substrate, and an RFID circuit is at the second side of the substrate. A shorting wall includes a plurality of through holes extending through the substrate and interconnecting the antenna with the ground plane. The plurality of through holes are generally linearly arranged relative to each other along an edge of the ground plane. An electrically conductive via extends through the substrate and interconnects the antenna with the RFID circuit. The via is at a distance from the shorting wall whereby an impedance of the RFID circuit approximately matches an impedance of the antenna. A backplane is coupled with the ground plane, on a side of the ground plane opposite the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Solstice Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel L. Sands, Clyde W. Sprowl, Michael D. Westrick
  • Patent number: 8337668
    Abstract: A blade for doctoring a moving surface or for sizing or creping a fibrous material web produced or finished in a web machine, for example in a paper, board or tissue machine, includes at least one fiber optic waveguide arranged on a surface of the blade or embedded in the material of the blade. The at least one fiber optic waveguide includes a fiber core and a fiber cladding. The at least one fiber optic waveguide further includes at least one fiber Bragg grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Antje Berendes, Norbert Gamsjäger
  • Patent number: 8337699
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor for anaerobically purifying waster water, especially waste water from the paper industry, comprising a reactor vessel, several inlets arranged in the bottom region of the reactor vessel to feed waste water to be purified into the reactor, at least one outlet for discharging purified water, and at least one sediment drain. One or more inlets are fed by a supply pipe, and several supply pipes are fed by a collecting supply pipe. In order to ensure that waste water to be purified is fed as regularly as possible at the bottom of the reactor vessel, at least the majority of the supply pipes of a collecting supply pipe supply waste water to be purified to a maximum of 10 inlets, and at least the majority of said supply pipes each have a control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Voith Patent GmbH, Aquatyx Wassertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Gommel, Dieter Efinger, Werner Gessler, Ronald Mulder
  • Patent number: 8327812
    Abstract: A cooling system for a liquid cooled internal combustion engine having coolant passages and a heat exchanger selected to operate the engine cooling system in the region of nucleate boiling. A sensor detects the presence of nucleate boiling and a variable volume chamber has a flexible diaphragm urged on one side by controlled air pressure and responsive to the sensor maintain the coolant system pressure at a level maintaining optimum nucleate boiling to increase heat flux from the engine and reduce overall size of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Carl T. Vuk
  • Patent number: 8328811
    Abstract: A method of removing bone material including the steps of drivingly connecting a bone removal tool to an output shaft; and rotating a plurality of drive shafts in an open frame, one of the plurality of drive shafts being connected to the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Reese K. Myers, Andrew H. Berthusen, Bryan Mendenhall
  • Patent number: 8328990
    Abstract: A fabric for a papermaking machine, the fabric including a machine facing side and a web facing side having pockets formed by warp and weft yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Scott D. Quigley
  • Patent number: 8330056
    Abstract: An electrical power system including a first power entry unit, at least one receptacle, and a second power entry unit. The at least one receptacle is electrically connected to the first power entry unit. The second power entry unit is electrically connectable to the at least one receptacle. The first power entry unit and the second power entry unit include at least one detection device. Either the first power entry unit or the second power entry unit is a selected power entry unit and the remaining one is another power entry unit. The detection device is configured to preclude an electrical power connection of both the selected power entry unit and the other power entry unit to the at least one receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventors: Try Ty, Mark Kmiecik, Aaron P. R. Starkey
  • Patent number: 8327765
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for ignitors of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomäus Forster
  • Patent number: 8323452
    Abstract: A forming section in a machine for producing a web of fibrous material includes a control and/or regulating system including a control and/or regulating device which is connected with at least one device for at least indirect acquisition of one value at least indirectly characterizing the dry content of the fibrous web in a transfer area from the forming section to a following function unit, with a device for input of a desired value for the target dry content, and with at least the control elements of an individual dewatering unit located prior to one of the last dewatering units, or the last dewatering unit inside the compression zone. The control and/or regulating device also includes a device for creating the control variables for controlling the individual dewatering units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 8323284
    Abstract: An adapter for a crossbar surgical reamer having a base with an interface for connecting with another style of reamer such as a crossbar reamer. Intersecting axially facing recesses are provided on the end of the base for connection with a crossbar type of reamer. A pair of grips are pivotally mounted on the base and urged to a closed position by a cross spring to releasably hold the crossbar reamer within the recesses for installation and removal substantially in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Julian Ferreira
  • Patent number: 8317979
    Abstract: A papermaking pickup fabric having two ends seamed together with a pintle. The fabric including a first plurality of monofilament yarns directed in a machine direction, a second plurality of monofilament yarns directed in a cross machine direction, and a plurality of multifilament filler yarns. The first plurality of monofilament yarns and the second plurality of monofilament yarns being woven together to form a weave pattern. The plurality of multifilament filler yarns are captivated in the weave pattern. The first plurality of monofilament yarns forming seam loops on each of the ends in a seam loop area, said multifilament filler yarns not extending into said seem loop area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: William Bast, Bob Crook, Calvin Hayden
  • Patent number: 8317547
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle includes a first portion having a face with a plurality of openings and including a first set of protrusions and a first set of receptors, the first portion being configured to receive a plurality of electrical conductors, and a second mating portion including a second set of protrusions and a second set of receptors. The first set of receptors is configured to interact with the second set of protrusions and the first set of protrusions is configured to interact with the second set of receptors to snap lock the second mating portion to the first portion and form the electrical receptacle. Further, a method is provided for assembling and disassembling an electrical receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond H. Riner, Bradley Plattner
  • Patent number: 8313618
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for obtaining a fiber suspension for producing a web of paper, cardboard, tissue, or other fibers from at least one high-consistency flow containing fibrous material and filling material in the approach flow system of a fiber web manufacturing machine, at least one high-consistency flow being directed through at least one screening device. In order to reduce the screening effort, the accept from the screening device is directed to the headbox of the machine, and the reject from the screening device is redirected upstream into a high-consistency flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Binder, Christian Bangert, Hubert Stojanovic
  • Patent number: D671893
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond H. Riner
  • Patent number: D671894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond H. Riner
  • Patent number: D672040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Jacque Delahoussaye
    Inventors: Jacque Delahoussaye, Nunilon F. Tabermejo