Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Patent number: 7832976
    Abstract: The method for the automatic feeding of metal section bars provides for seizing a group of metal section bars (2) from a store (3) by means of gripping tools (11) and for transferring the said group of metal section bars (2) in a lifted position. The metal section bars (2) are arranged on a transfer device (20) suited to transfer the metal section bars (2) on receiving means (30). In a suitable phase relationship, the counting of the metal section bars (2) transferred on the said receiving means (30) is carried out. Such operating cycle is repeated until a prefixed number of metal section bars (2) is reached. The whole of the metal section bars (2) is disentangled through the progressive sliding of the receiving means (30) along the longitudinal axis of the metal section bars (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Schnell S.p.A.
    Inventor: Aronne Miglioranza
  • Patent number: 7827892
    Abstract: An apparatus for trimming paper rolls or logs (2) including: a section for the entry of the logs (2) to be trimmed; a section for the exit of the trimmed logs (2?); a station with a cutting device (6) for trimming the logs (2); a device (3) for moving the logs (2, 2?) between the entry section, the cutting station and the exit section; a device (4), associated with the log-moving device (3), for retaining the logs when subjected to movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Inventor: Fabio Perini
  • Patent number: 7829805
    Abstract: A shifting device for a motor vehicle is provided with a bracket (3), with a selector lever (7) mounted at the bracket (3) pivotably via a joint (12) and with an angle-measuring device having a signal transmitter (13) and two sensors (14, 15). The angle-measuring device is arranged in the joint (12) and is electrically connected to a control means (19) connected to a motor vehicle transmission (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Metin Ersoy, Andreas Gaertner, Peter Reitz
  • Patent number: 7829733
    Abstract: Charge control resin particles comprising a mixture of at least a charge control agent and a resin, wherein a crystalline zinc 3,5-di-tert-butylsalicylate represented by General Formula below, and having major peaks of X-ray diffraction using the CuK?-characteristic X-ray at Bragg angles 2? of at least 6.4±0.2° and 15.4±0.2°, is contained as said charge control agent. Toner for developing electrostatic images which comprises a coloring agent, a binder resin for toner, and the charge control resin particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Orient Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihide Isoda, Tetsuji Kihara, Tohru Tsuruhara
  • Patent number: 7828693
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a hybrid propulsion system for a vehicle is provided. The system comprises at least one drive wheel; a first motor coupled to the drive wheel, said first motor configured to selectively generate electrical energy from kinetic energy received at the drive wheel; a second motor configured to selectively generate electrical energy from kinetic energy received at the drive wheel; a transmission including a first end coupled to the first motor and a second end coupled to the second motor; and a control system configured to vary a level of electrical energy generated by the first motor relative to the second motor in response to a thermal condition of at least one of said first and second motors to provide vehicle braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ihab Soliman, Deepak Aswani
  • Patent number: 7827955
    Abstract: An engine for a leisure vehicle including a crank chamber in which a crankshaft is disposed, a transmission chamber in which a transmission unit of the vehicle is disposed, the transmission unit having an input shaft that is coupled to the crankshaft and configured to be driven by the crankshaft, a cylinder extending from the crank chamber, and a cylinder head attached to the cylinder. The crank chamber is located above the transmission chamber, and the cylinder is disposed in such a manner that an axial direction thereof is oriented in a substantially longitudinal direction of a vehicle body of the leisure vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimoto Matsuda, Sosuke Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 7831333
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the transfer of a load hanging at a load rope of a crane or excavator comprising a slewing gear, a luffing mechanism and a hoisting gear comprising a computer-controlled regulator for the damping of the load oscillation which has a trajectory planner, a disturbance observer and a state regulator with a pre-control, wherein the working space is first fixed by selection of two points, with one of the two points being fixed as the destination point by direction presetting by means of the hand lever and with the nominal speeds for the slewing gear and the luffing mechanism being preset by the hand lever signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Sawodny, Alexander Hildebrandt, Joerg Neupert, Klaus Schneider
  • Patent number: 7827975
    Abstract: A method for operation of a vehicle having an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine may include one or more combustion chambers, a fuel delivery system including a direct fuel injector coupled to each combustion chamber, an ignition system including one or more spark plugs coupled to each combustion chamber, a piston disposed within each combustion chamber, and an intake and an exhaust valve coupled to each combustion chamber, the internal combustion engine providing motive power to the vehicle. The method may include discontinuing combustion operation within the internal combustion engine responsive to idle-stop operation. The method may further include, during a direct-start, performing multi-strike ignition operation per combustion cycle via one or more selected spark plug(s) for at least a first combustion cycle in a combustion chamber following the discontinuation of combustion operation, the one or more selected spark plug(s) coupled to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex O'Connor Gibson, Jianwen James Yi, Brad Alan VanDerWege, Joseph Norman Ulrey, Cindy Zhou, Steven Todd Wooldridge, David Reiche
  • Patent number: 7828307
    Abstract: A stabilizer arrangement is provided for a motor vehicle with a stabilizer (1), which is connected to the vehicle chassis and which is connected, on each side of the vehicle, to a spring-mounted wheel carrier part with a piston-cylinder unit (4, 4?). Each of the piston-cylinder units (4, 4?) includes at least one piston (8), which is movably arranged in a cylinder (7) and which splits the cylinder into a first and a second cylinder chamber (7a, 7b). The cylinder chambers are separate from one another. The piston-cylinder units (4, 4?) are respectively connected in an articulated manner, at one end, to an end of the stabilizer 1 and, at the other end, to a spring-mounted wheel carrier part. The piston (8) has a connecting line (14) that connects the first and second cylinder chambers. The respective connecting line (14) has a nonreturn valve (15), which acts in one direction. The piston (8) can be moved into at least one end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Metin Ersoy, Jens Vortmeyer
  • Patent number: 7823587
    Abstract: A system and process for monitoring the valves of an anesthetic dispenser with a safety valve (2) and with a dispensing valve (3) for dispensing the anesthetic in the form of a vapor. The valves are connected in series. A system has a downstream dispensing gap (5) and a fixed bypass resistance (9). The dispensing valve (3) is first opened for an equalization time. The safety valve (2) and the dispensing valve (3) are closed and the differential pressure between the saturated vapor branch (4) and the mixed gas branch (8) is measured by means of a differential pressure sensor (6, 7). The safety valve (2) or the dispensing valve (3) is opened and the differential pressure between the saturated vapor branch (4) and the mixed gas branch (8) is measured by means of the differential pressure sensor (6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Müller, Rainer Kunz
  • Patent number: 7825026
    Abstract: A gas inlet is disposed in a lower portion of a reaction chamber, a copper substrate is disposed in an upper portion thereof, and a tungsten catalytic body heated to 1600° C. is disposed midway between the two. Ammonia gas introduced from the gas inlet is decomposed by the tungsten catalytic body, a chemical species generated by the decomposition reacts with a surface of the copper substrate, and reduces and removes a contaminant on the copper surface, and a Cu3N thin film is formed on the copper substrate surface. This Cu3N film has the action of a film which prevents the oxidation of copper. This Cu3N film is thermally decomposed and removed when heated to temperatures of not less than 300° C., leaving a clean copper surface behind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Akira Izumi, Masamichi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 7826957
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are described for operating an engine in a vehicle in response to fuel having varying amounts of alcohol. One example method comprises delivering fuel to the engine, limiting engine speed during vehicle operation to a maximum permitted engine speed, the maximum permitted engine speed responsive to the amount of alcohol in the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Phil Andrew Fabien
  • Patent number: 7823548
    Abstract: A method to adjust timing of an electrically actuated valve, said electrically actuated valve operating in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising during a cycle of said cylinder, opening said electrically actuated valve at a first valve opening position without activating a valve opening coil, and closing the valve at a first closing position; and during a second subsequent cycle of said cylinder, opening said electrically actuated valve at a second opening position that is varied based on the crankshaft angle at which said first closing occurs, where the second opening position is increased as said the crankshaft angle at which the first closing occurs increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vince Winstead, Donald J. Lewis
  • Patent number: 7823444
    Abstract: A device is provided for measuring the velocity of flow of a fluid in a respiration system and includes a first thermal sensor element (5) provided with a controllable heating element (50) and a second thermal sensor element (6). The thermal sensor elements (5, 6) are arranged at spaced locations from one another at a path of flow, so that a thermal signal generated by the first sensor element (5) with the heating element (50) is transmitted to the second sensor element (6), and the second sensor element (6) is designed to detect the thermal signal from the fluid flow. The second sensor element (6) is connected to the first sensor element (5) via feedback (12) which triggers another thermal signal. A controlling and analyzing device (13, 15) is connected to the sensor elements (5, 6) to start the generation of a first thermal signal and to read and analyze the signal frequency as an indicator of the velocity of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulf Zschernack, Henning Gerder, Hartmut Stark
  • Patent number: 7825353
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an electrical cooking apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electrical cooking apparatus includes a substantially continuous cooking surface, a plurality of electrical heating elements disposed under the substantially continuous cooking surface, and at least two temperature controllers configured to allow independent control of temperatures of at least two of the plurality of heating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Evo, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Shingler
  • Patent number: 7823563
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are described for controlling fuel injection to a plurality of cylinders. One example method comprises during combustion timing imbalances among a plurality of cylinders carrying out homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion, adjusting a fuel injection amount in a first cylinder to adjust a combustion timing of the first cylinder in a first direction, and correspondingly adjusting a fuel injection amount in a second cylinder in a second direction to maintain average engine torque and reduce the imbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Yanying Wang
  • Patent number: 7819406
    Abstract: An improve spring rate of a stabilizer is provided with an extended spring length. An inner rotary part (4) of an oscillating motor (2) and a second stabilizer part (1) are connected to one another with a non-positive connection (force transmitting friction connection) designed such that the axial center of the force-transmitting length of the second stabilizer part (1) and the axial center of the force-transmitting length of the inner rotary part (4) are located on a common radial plane. The non-positive connection between the inner rotary part (4) and a fitting cylinder (14) of the second stabilizer part (1) is formed either from a shrunk-on fit or a toothed part (21) and a fitting part (22), wherein the toothed part (21) and the fitting part (22) are likewise shrunk on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Stefan Beetz, Winfried Krueger, Torsten Baustian
  • Patent number: D626414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventors: Jeff Cresswell, Donald G. Carlson
  • Patent number: D626416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventors: Jeff Cresswell, Donald G. Carlson
  • Patent number: D626969
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Gelardi