Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Patent number: 6729127
    Abstract: An exhaust cleaning system for motor vehicles, especially a diesel exhaust cleaning system for medium to heavy utility vehicles. The exhaust cleaning system has an exhaust muffler (1), a catalytic converter (2) and an exhaust particle filter element (3). The exhaust muffler (1), the catalytic converter (2) with a U-shaped tubular urea injection element (4) arranged upstream and an exhaust particle filter element (3) are integrated in a common housing and designed as a structural, functional unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Woerner, Peter Zacke, Thomas Hauber, Rudolf Buhmann, Marcus Werni
  • Patent number: 6732217
    Abstract: A parent station output section changes a duty ratio between a period of a level other than a predetermined power-supply voltage level and a subsequent period of the power-supply voltage level according to each data value of a control data signal to convert the control data signal into a serial pulse voltage signal and output it onto a data signal line. A parent station input section detects a supervisory data signal superimposed on the serial pulse voltage signal transmitted over the data signal line as the presence or absence of a current signal generated by contention between the supervisory signal and the power-supply voltage on the rising edge of the power-supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignees: Harmo-Link Corporation, Anywire Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Nishikido
  • Patent number: 6729232
    Abstract: A fanout compensator for a printing press, which comprises a rotary body formation, which has foot sections and head sections alternatingly next to each other along a longitudinal axis. The foot sections and head sections form a wave-shaped surface in order to deform a web to be printed on. The web wraps around the rotary body formation, in a wave-shaped pattern at right angles to the direction of conveying of the web. Fluid channels, which open on the surface of the rotary body formation, are formed in the rotary body formation. The rotary body formation has a fluid connection connected to the fluid channels in order to guide a pressurized fluid to the fluid channels and through the fluid channels to the surface of the rotary body formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Wifag
    Inventor: Robert Langsch
  • Patent number: 6731091
    Abstract: A robot has a robot structure, preferably a plurality of interconnected arms. The robot also has drives for driving the arms, and a plurality of electronic drive units for operating and controlling the drives. The electronic drive units generate heat when in operation and are distributed on the robot structure at spaced locations from each other. A thermal insulation is arranged between the robot structure and the drive electronics. A cooling device is arranged on the drive electronics and is spaced from the robot structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Hietmann, Thomas Finsterwald
  • Patent number: 6729573
    Abstract: A roll changer for a web-treating or -processing machine is set up for winding off a working web (A) to be treated or processed from a working roll (A) and for connecting a reserve web (V) from a reserve roll (R2) to the working web (A). The roll changer includes a first mount (1, 4) for the working roll (R1) and a second mount (2, 5) for the reserve roll (R2). A connecting device (10) connects the reserve web (V) to the working web (A). A holding device (21) is arranged downstream of the connecting device (10) along the web for fixing the working web (A). A pulling device (16), is arranged in a path of the working web (A) between the connecting device (10) and the holding device (21) and is set up to pull the working web (A) from the working roll (R1) during the stoppage of the working roll (R1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Wifag
    Inventors: Daniel Burri, Hans Moser
  • Patent number: 6731041
    Abstract: Each of the rotor magnetic poles is composed of a winding around a laminated core and each of both ends of each wound wire is connected to a commutator leg part coupled with a tip of a corresponding commutator segment of the commutator unit. Each of the commutator leg parts includes a base portion extending outward in a direction substantially normal to the radial direction from the tip of the corresponding commutator segment tip and coupled to the commutator segment top and a tip portion narrowed stepwise to let the ends of a wound wire be connected. A disk-shaped varistor having a hole at the center is mounted over the base portion of the commutator leg part, and each electrode of the varistor is soldered onto the corresponding base portion. Further, the commutator leg parts are punched and cut out of a reel-wound flat parent metal sheet and fixed to the commutator segment tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Furuya, Makoto Kimura
  • Patent number: 6725889
    Abstract: The equipment comprises: a plurality of containers in the form of bins (19A, 19B, . . . ), at the base of each of which a remotely controlled dispenser (21A; 21B; . . . ) can supply approximate quantities of the product by allowing it to fall from the corresponding container; channels (33A) capable of collecting the products supplied and of discharging them via a deflector (39) toward one or other of two housings (15A; 15B) for a packaging wrapper (5A, 5B) designed to package product received from the hopper, a grinder (15) being positioned above one (15B) of the housings. A computerized apparatus (50) is used for indicating and entering the individual selections and operations to be carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventor: Maria Pilar Perez Vales
  • Patent number: 6728643
    Abstract: A process and device measures and checks concentration values of a plurality of gas components in a gas sample. The distortion of the measuring results by temperature and moisture effects, contamination as well as cross sensitivity and drift phenomena of the sensors of the gas-measuring device is a frequent problem in the measurement of gases by a gas-measuring device. It is possible with the process to recognize implausible measuring results as such on the gas-measuring device without design measures. This is achieved by the evaluation of data of suitably selected calibrating gases, from which a subvector space is constructed in the vector space of all possible measurement data (s1, s2, s3), represented as a plane (E), and a corresponding tolerance range is constructed. If the data (*) determined later during a measurement, are in the tolerance range, they are classified as plausible, and otherwise as implausible. The subvector space is constructed, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Drägerwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Hackenberg, Matthias Studer
  • Patent number: 6725860
    Abstract: A monitoring process for the reliable metering of different gaseous anesthetics uses a gaseous anesthetic monitor designed as only a single-channel monitor for determining the concentration of only one gaseous anesthetic. The process also uses an associated gaseous anesthetic metering means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Dräger Medizintechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Carl F. Wallroth, Frank Gottschalk, Ernst-Günter Scharmer, Helmut Thiemann
  • Patent number: 6725771
    Abstract: To provide a synchronous controller of a rotary press for selecting a control subject based on print image information, wherein the rotary press of a multicolor printing unit has a printing division for printing a print image on the plate cylinder onto continuous paper passing between two blanket cylinders via the blanket cylinders and is constituted by combining at least two such printing divisions, and the controller has a print image allocation setting division for allocating print images to be printed to each printing couple, a driving unit for individually driving the printing couples, a slave control division for controlling rotation of the driving unit, and a master control division provided by connecting the slave control division and print image allocation setting division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizurou Tokiwa
  • Patent number: 6725891
    Abstract: Machine for profile working of front surfaces on oblong wood workpieces resolves the problem of simple, accurate and fluent or continued working of workpieces front surfaces of various lengths and intersections, and the machine is of a compact construction. It is characteristic by the construction of the entrance turnover device transversely placed between longitudinal conveyors with carriers, which has on the periphery of rotating wheels constructed movable bearing couplings, and by them fixed guiding plates with the groove inside which there are movably inserted guided bearings of bearing couplings. In the area of the entrance turnover device there are placed under an optional angle the oblique roller conveyors, inside which there are flexibly and circularly movably inserted rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventors: Pavel Ledinek, Gregor Ledinek
  • Patent number: 6723974
    Abstract: A process for the adaptive beam control of medium-energy laser weapons for fighting electro-optical sensors and windows, wherein the behavior of the laser power reflected from a bright spot of the target and measured by a thermal image apparatus during increasing irradiation intensity is analyzed during a phase of measurement. The laser power to be emitted that will lead to the desired laser beam diameter or to the highest possible laser intensity at the target during the subsequent phase of fighting is then derived by calculation from this as well as other parameters influencing the thermal beam expansion. It is thus made possible that the laser does not always have to be operated with the maximum power, but only with the currently needed power during the phase of fighting, so that a saving is achieved in the consumption of primary laser energy. One example is explained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: LFK Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Gunther Sepp
  • Patent number: 6719281
    Abstract: A clamping element is provided for clamping workpieces in a flexible position with hydraulically actuated clamping jaws, which can be moved to the workpiece and can be fixed by a clamping insert (2; 30) guided in a housing (1; 29). The clamping insert is provided with an internally located piston (3), which is guided slidingly. Clamping jaws (20; 31) as well as a clamping lever (11), which is connected to the piston via a connecting rod (8) in an articulated manner, are associated with the clamping insert. The clamping operation moves the piston upward and presses the clamping lever onto the workpiece (25). The resistance originating from the workpiece brings about the stopping of the clamping lever and at the same time continues to raise the clamping insert, as a result of which the clamping jaws come into contact with the workpiece under the workpiece and firmly connect the workpiece to the clamping insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: A. Römheld GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rudolf Kohlert
  • Patent number: 6720257
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bump on a terminal face (Z1) of a semiconductor substrate (20), in which the terminal face is nucleated to generate a basic metallization through electrolytic coating of the terminal face with zincate, in such a way that zinc particles (24) electrolytically deposited on the terminal face serve as nuclei for an ensuing contact metallization (28) autocatalytically deposited on the basic metallization. In addition to the electrolytic coating with zincate, an electrolytic coating of the terminal face with palladium takes place, in such a way that, in addition to zinc particles (24), palladium particles (25) deposited on the terminal face serve as nuclei for the contact metallization subsequently autocatalytically deposited on the terminal face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Pac Tech-Packaging Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Elke Zakel
  • Patent number: 6720878
    Abstract: A data communications system includes a data display (3) in a mask or helmet visor (2) to enable the user to display various data as needed. The system has a mask (1) or a helmet with a voice transmitter (4) with a microphone (5) as well as a transmitter unit (6) on the output side. The system has a receiver unit (15) for the data display (3) on the input side. An evaluating unit (8) is equipped with a receiver unit (7) and a transmitter unit (14) for data communication with the transmitter and receiver units (6, 15) of the mask (1) or of the helmet. The evaluating unit (8) receives the measured data from at least one measuring device (21, 22, 23) via associated transmitter units (11, 12, 13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventor: Werner Jumpertz
  • Patent number: 6715325
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of producing a knit fabric which is patterned and at least partially plated, on a circular machine equipped with a cylinder with needles (12) and sinkers (14), comprising the use of a first strand and a second strand (A, B) which are different at least in colour and which are fed to the needles through the sinkers, and the positioning of the strands through selection and a programmed longitudinal movement of the sinkers in such a way as to arrange alternately, one or other of the two strands on the reverse side and face side of the resulting knit fabric, without cutting the strands, creating patterns which are different in colour at least, in the fabric areas in which there is, on the face side or in view, one or other of the strands. This method can be used both for the production of smooth plated fabric and for the production of fabric which is part terry and part plated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Sangiacomo S.p.A.
    Inventor: Fulvio Sangiacomo
  • Patent number: 6713714
    Abstract: A method and a device for thermally connecting the terminal areas (26, 27) of a contact substrate (11) to the terminal areas (28, 29) of a carrier substrate (12), where the substrates (11, 12) are, in order to produce the connection, arranged in a connecting position such that the terminal areas (26, 28; 27, 29) are situated opposite one another in the plane of the connection, where the contact substrate (11) is heated to the connecting temperature from its rear side that is situated opposite the terminal areas (26, 27) in order to reach the required connecting temperature in the plane of the connection, and where the contact substrate (11) is heated by subjecting the substrate to laser energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignees: Pac Tech-Packaging Technologies GmbH, Smart Pac GmbH Technology Services
    Inventor: Ghassem Azdasht
  • Patent number: D488076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Lassigne
  • Patent number: D488880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Franz Sill GmbH
    Inventor: Erhard Rahn
  • Patent number: D489133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventor: Kunio Shimizu