Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Patent number: 5404060
    Abstract: A miniature motor with worm reduction gear outputting the revolution of a miniature motor via a worm reduction gear consisting of a worm and a worm wheel, in which the tooth surface of the worm is roughened into a stain finish, and then subjected to a surface treatment to improve wear resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakahashi, Kazuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5400728
    Abstract: A sewing unit with a feed device for a fabric holder with support elements that can be moved along a guide and are connected to a drive each for feed means acting on the fabric holder. A fabric being sewn can be transported to or removed from the sewing machine by the feed device over any desired distance and the feed movement of the fabric being sewn can be brought about without problems during passage through the stitch formation site of the sewing machine even at very high stitch frequency because of the favorable dynamic properties. The guides are arranged in the same direction, and the support elements can be driven synchronously for a movement of the fabric holder in parallel to the guides, and at mutually different velocities for a movement in a direction deviating from the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: G.M. Pfaff Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Axel Zinssmeister
  • Patent number: 5400944
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a processing station (1) for workpieces, especially vehicle bodies (2), in a transfer line (3). Changeable clamping frames (5, 6) are kept ready in magazines (7, 8), and the magazines (7, 8) are arranged on both sides in front of and/or behind the work station (29) in relation to the direction of the transfer line (3). At least one processing device (4) is arranged at the work station (29) on the side of the transfer line (3). The magazines (7, 8) are preferably designed as rotatable and upright drum magazines and are connected in pairs by a common transport device (10). The old clamping frame (5) can thus be moved from the work station (29) into one magazine (7, 8) and a new clamping frame (6) can at the same time be brought to the work station (29) by one movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Kuka Schweissanlgen + Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Zimmer, Johann Maischberger, Thomas Sturm, Heinz Meyer
  • Patent number: 5400689
    Abstract: A device for storing a missile 8 includes at least one adjustable and spring-loaded support point 11, 31 and at least two fixed support points 12 and 32 each are present in a launcher tube in the front and in the rear. The front support points 11, 12 act on support pins 10 arranged on the jacket of the missile 8, and the rear support points 12, 32 act on sliding ribs 35 arranged on supports 33 for wings 34 that can be folded out, wherein all support points are supported on frames 3 and 4 of a launching container 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Deutsche Aerospace
    Inventors: Horst Hutter, Dietmar Puttinger
  • Patent number: 5400495
    Abstract: A method for winding coils on an armature for miniature motor which typically comprise an armature iron core of a multi-pole construction, having a plurality of coils wound thereon, a commutator disposed on an insulating cylinder fixedly fitted to a motor shaft, and ends of lead wires drawn from the coil connected to commutator tongues of the commutator, in which a plurality of coils are wound sequentially on the armature iron core, and the trailing end of the lead wire drawn from the lastly wound coil is connected to a predetermined commutator tongue after the lead wire is wound on the insulating cylinder at a predetermined angle in such a manner that the lead wire intersects and makes contact with all the lead wires lying between the already wound coils and the commutator tongues at least more than once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunitaka Murai
  • Patent number: 5402015
    Abstract: A cable connection between a PC and a sewing machine for transmitting data in the form of different voltage levels, wherein the cable connection for connection to the PC has an RS 232 C port and the sewing machine has a TTL port. A level converter is integrated in the cable connection, preferably in the connection jack to the RS 232 C port. The level converter has a switching transistor controllable by the sending pole of the TTL port and a switching transistor controllable by the sending pole of the 232 port for connecting the corresponding receiving pole to a voltage potential which it is able to receive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: G. M. Pfaff Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Joachim Hammermann
  • Patent number: 5398605
    Abstract: An ink pump control system driven by a stepping motor comprising a pulse generating section for generating stepping motor driving pulses, an arithmetic section for obtaining a time difference .DELTA.t=T.sub.2 -T.sub.1 between the time T.sub.2 and time T.sub.1 required to cause the stepping motor to rotate in angular movements at a hypothetical revolution speed r.sub.2 required for feeding ink and a predetermined revolution speed r.sub.1 based on printing speed data and printing element ratio data, a predetermined pulse output section for outputting pulses that cause the stepping motor to rotate intermittently at high speed based on the pulses generated by the pulse generating section and the time difference obtained in the arithmetic section, and an excitation signal output section for outputting an exciting signal to cause the stepping motor to be actuated by a motor driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Tokyo Kirai Seisakusho, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizuro Tokiwa
  • Patent number: 5398434
    Abstract: The steam iron comprises a container (27) which is inserted into a seating (15) open at the rear, so as to open a hole (17A) in a wall (17) of the tank (19) and supply water to the tank itself which delivers said water to the vaporization chamber (5); the container acts as a water metering device, reservoir and container for decalcifying agents. (FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Inventor: Mauro Biancalani
  • Patent number: 5399929
    Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case formed into a bottomed hollow tubular shape and having permanent magnets fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor consisting of an armature and a commutator, and a case cover engaged with an open end of the case and having brushes making sliding contact with the commutator, and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, in which fixing ribs are provided on the inner circumferential surface of the case, extending along the axial direction of the case; the edges of the permanent magnets formed into an arc-segment cross-sectional shape being caused to make contact with the side edges of the fixing ribs to fixedly fit the permanent magnets to the inner circumferential surface of the case; projections formed integrally with the permanent magnets along the edges of the permanent magnets are provided facing the surface of the fixing ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Okada, Keisuke Ebihara
  • Patent number: 5397079
    Abstract: Process for the autonomous positional control of guided missiles, which are to be launched from a carrier plane, but without the cooperation thereof, wherein data on the instantaneous position of the guided missile, as well as flight and target data are fed into a computer of the guided missile already on the ground. The initial data fed into the computer are continually updated with changing values from the inertial navigation and additional navigational aids and are further calculated to achieve autonomous flight guidance and self-guiding of the missile. An uninterruptible power supply of the guided missile is maintained beginning from the moment of data reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Deutsche Aerospace AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Strentz, Gunther Bittner
  • Patent number: 5395370
    Abstract: A medical technical compression implant (1) for the surgical repair of damage to the spine, especially in the cervical region, includes two clamp jaws (3, 4), which are directed toward each other, are hook-shaped, are connected by a threaded spindle (2), and can be compressed while reducing the distance (B) between them. A wrench profile (9) for attaching a rotating tool in an interlocking manner is arranged at the threaded spindle (2) between two threaded sections (7, 8) with right-hand threads and left-hand threads, respectively. Both the clamp jaws (3, 4) have threaded nuts (5, 6), which are pivotably mounted from bodies, with diametrical threaded bores for screwing on the threaded sections (7, 8). The threaded nuts are mounted in cylindrical transverse bores of the clamp jaws (3, 4). The bore walls (21) are provided with diametrical openings (22, 23) for passing through the threaded sections (7, 8) of the threaded spindle (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Pina Vertriebs AG
    Inventors: Walter Muller, Georg Piotrowski
  • Patent number: 5393742
    Abstract: A preparation is useful for treating renal disease, such as nephritis and especially nephrosis (nephrotic syndrome), which comprises an effective amount of N-acetylneuraminic acid shown by the formula ##STR1## wherein, when n is 1, Z represents hydrogens, lithium, potassium, sodium, ammonium or organic ammonium, and when n is 2, Z represents calcium, barium or magnesium, and a pharmacologically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: MECT Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Ishii, Makiko Kasano, Tae Yasunaga, Mariko Ishii, Mamoru Sugimoto, Kenkichi Tomita, Takeshi Miyata, Makoto Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5390470
    Abstract: A machine for the production of weldable plastic film bags from a strip reel, and for the filling of the said bags, comprises means of supporting and unwinding a first strip reel (B.sub.1); means of supporting a second reserve strip reel (B.sub.2); and means (41, 49) of cutting and welding the strip (N), to automatically make the join between the trailing end of the strip being unwound from the first reel (B.sub.1) and the leading end of the strip on the second reel (B.sub.2) when the first reel is about to be used up. In order to bring the strip on reel (B.sub.1) into phase with the strip on reel (B.sub.2), there are provided means (5, 7, 9) of delimiting a predetermined length of the path of the strip between the means of forming, filling and sealing the bags and the means (41, 49) of cutting and welding the strip; a first reference (151) down-line from the means of welding and cutting the strip; and a second reference (153) for the strip from the second reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Garibaldo Ricciarelli S.R.L.
    Inventors: Pietro P. Brunini, Alberto Mangani
  • Patent number: 5391890
    Abstract: The apparatus has an optical reflecting sensor, an operational amplifier buffer with the electrical input connected to the output of the optical sensor, structure for averaging and delating a signal picked up at the output of the sensor, structure for the differential amplification of the signals on output respectively from the buffer and structure for comparing the signal outputting from the means with a known predetermined signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Solis S.R.L.
    Inventor: Pier L. Migliorini
  • Patent number: D355799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: NAOS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi
  • Patent number: D356269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Sodihor S.A.
    Inventor: Stevan Milovanovic
  • Patent number: D356510
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Bertolucci Distribution SA
    Inventor: Remo Bertolucci
  • Patent number: D356944
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Spaulding & Rogers Mfg., Inc.
    Inventor: Darwin Spaulding
  • Patent number: D356956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Sportime Watches AG(Sportime Watches Ltd.)(Sportime Watches SA)
    Inventor: Steven Hitter
  • Patent number: D356959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Sodihar S.A.
    Inventor: Stevan Milovanovic