Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Transaxle for a vehicle
    Patent number: 7775132
    Abstract: A transaxle for a vehicle comprises a transaxle casing; an input shaft housed in the transaxle casing and configured to receive as an input a driving power from an engine of the vehicle; an intermediate shaft housed in the transaxle casing; an axle housed in the transaxle casing and configured to drive a rear wheel of the vehicle; a rearward travel gear mechanism which is mounted between the input shaft and the intermediate shaft and is configured to transmit the driving power for moving the vehicle rearward from the input shaft to the intermediate shaft; a forward travel chain mechanism configured to transmit the driving power for moving the vehicle forward from the input shaft to the intermediate shaft; and a transmission gear mechanism which is mounted between the intermediate shaft and the axle and is configured to transmit the driving power from the intermediate shaft to the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaoru Oda, Taisuke Morita, Izumi Takagi
  • Coupling part for connecting two containers stacked on top of one another
    Patent number: 7771147
    Abstract: A coupling part (10) is provided for connecting two containers stacked on top of one another, in particular on board ships, at their corner fittings (13). The coupling part (10) includes two coupling projections (11, 12) facing in opposite directions. One projection (11) engages in the corner fitting (13) of one container and the other projection (12) engages in the corner fitting of the other container. It is ensured that the coupling part (10) can be mounted in the corresponding corner fitting such that locking lugs (18) of the coupling part (10) always face in the same direction on an end face of the container, i.e. that no coupling part (10) is inadvertently inserted the wrong way. One of the coupling projections (11) of the coupling part (10) is asymmetrical. The coupling part (10) can only be inserted into and mounted on the corner fitting (13) in a specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: SEC Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Bederke
  • Ball and socket joint
    Patent number: 7771136
    Abstract: A ball and socket joint is provided, for example, for an axle system of a motor vehicle. The joint has an essentially ring-shaped or pot-shaped joint housing (2). The ball (7) of a ball pivot (1) is received in the interior space of the joint housing (2) in a slidingly movable manner. The joint housing (2) includes a ball pivot-side and a housing cover-side housing half (4, 5). The two housing halves (4, 5) have an essentially circumferential axial stop (9). Based on the axial stop (9), the housing halves (4, 5) can be brought into contact with one another in the axial direction in an exactly defined manner. The reproducibility of tolerances in manufacture can be carefully controlled allowing manufacture at a low cost. The specific load-bearing capacity of the ball and socket joint can be increased or the dimensions of the ball and socket joint can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Manfred Buhl, Ralf Kunze
  • Engine combustion controlling method, device and motorcycle
    Patent number: 7770555
    Abstract: A method, a device utilizing the method, and a motorcycle equipped with the device are provided, of controlling combustion of an engine to have an engine beat different from an equally-intervalled combustion. The method of controlling combustions of an engine having three or more pistons of cylinders per crankshaft includes causing simultaneous combustions of two cylinders among the three or more cylinders, the two cylinders having the same crank phase angle, causing a combustion of at least one -other cylinder, and in the process of said combustion offsetting a crank phase angle by a first crank phase angle, and repeating from the combustions of the first two cylinders further offsetting the crank phase angle by a second crank phase angle from the first crank phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
  • Breathing mask
    Patent number: 7770581
    Abstract: A breathing mask shall has an inspiration valve (4) that can be replaced in a simple manner. The breathing valve (4) is designed for this purpose as a modular assembly unit that can be inserted into the breathing gas channel (3) from the outer side (10) of the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Olaf Balke, Manfred Gdulla, Siegbert Tolk
  • Device and method for respirating a patient by means of high-frequency ventilation
    Patent number: 7770580
    Abstract: A device is provided for respirating a patient by means of high-frequency ventilation, which has at least one device for setting a desired tidal volume by a user, and which has at least one regulating device for regulating an amplitude of the respiration pressure and/or at least one regulating device for regulating the oscillation frequency on the basis of the tidal volume determined. A corresponding method is provided for regulating a device for respirating a patient by high-frequency ventilation and a method is provided for respirating a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Krüger, Tobias Glaw
  • System and control method for an engine having two types of fuel injectors
    Patent number: 7770560
    Abstract: A reduced cost dual fuel injection system and method is described. Port fuel injectors and direct fuel injectors may be operated by using common injector drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Additive applicator
    Patent number: 7770585
    Abstract: Apparatus for applying an additive to cigarette filter tow material which is in, or exiting, a filter tow funnel, the apparatus comprising a flavor inlet, a valve, and a hollow needle positioned downstream of at least a portion of said filter tow funnel, the needle being in fluid communication controlled by said valve with said flavor inlet, whereby, in use, a flavoring is delivered by said needle into the path of said filter tow material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: C.B. Kaymich & Co. Limited
    Inventor: Lawrence Fowles
  • Vehicle trajectory control system
    Patent number: 7771313
    Abstract: A system, comprising an engine having an electronically controlled throttle plate to adjust airflow to the engine; a transmission having an input speed and an output speed, the transmission including a clutch and the transmission coupled to the engine; and a controller configured to: during a tip-out condition and during a gear ratio change to a future gear, and when the transmission does not provide engine braking, control the engine speed to a synchronous speed in the future gear ratio by adjusting an engine operating parameter so that the engine speed is close to the engine speed that will be achieved after the gear change is completed, and maintain engine speed at the close engine speed after the gear change is completed until a tip-in, where engine speed is controlled by adjusting at least the electronically controlled throttle plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Cullen, Ralph Wayne Cunningham
  • Safety helmet with a breathing mask
    Patent number: 7770240
    Abstract: The connection of a breathing mask to a safety helmet provides increased wearing comfort. A fastening mount (12) with circular arc-shaped inner contour (14) is provided, and the bracket for the breathing mask has a projection corresponding thereto. The projection is in contact with the inner contour (14) of the fastening mount (12), so that the bracket is displaceable in relation to the fastening mount (12) in a rotatingly movable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Manfred Gdulla, Michael Rosert, Dirk Feil, Siegbert Tolk
  • Control of turbocharger imbalance
    Patent number: 7770393
    Abstract: A method for controlling flow differences in a turbocharged internal combustion engine is presented. In one example, the description includes a method for adjusting valve timing to reduce flow variation between two compressors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Julia Helen Buckland, Mrdjan J. Jankovic
  • Fuel delivery system for a multi-fuel engine
    Patent number: 7770562
    Abstract: A fuel delivery system for a multi-fuel internal combustion engine and an approach for operating the fuel delivery system are provided. The fuel delivery system can be operated in two or more different fuel delivery modes according to operating conditions of the engine or fuel delivery system. A first example mode can be performed to concurrently deliver two or more fuels to the engine. A second example mode can be performed to transfer fuel from a first fuel storage tank to a second fuel storage tank. A third example mode can be performed to supply a fuel from a first fuel storage tank to at least two fuel injectors of each cylinder of the engine. In some embodiments, the various modes of operation may be selected by varying a fuel pressure that is provided by the fuel delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Norman Ulrey, Ralph Wayne Cunningham
  • Wire cable with saving energy
    Patent number: 7772495
    Abstract: A wire cable of electric conductor forming of multiple metals or alloys includes single (bundle) wire cable or double (bundle) wire cables, in which at least in one bundle of electric conductor, each bundle of electric conductor is composed of slim electric wire made by two or more than two metals or alloys, which is covered by insulator to form a wire cable of electric conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Jeng-Shyong Wu, Li-Wen Liu, Woi-Jen Liu
  • Conveying device for conveying goods on pallets along a horizontal conveying line
    Patent number: 7770720
    Abstract: A conveying device (1) is provided for conveying preferably heavy goods on pallets or the like on an essentially horizontal conveying line or track (5, 6) on the floor (4) of a room or outdoors. The conveying line is, in the longitudinal direction, divided into a first conveying track (5) and into a second conveying track (6). A dividing area is formed by at least one moving partial piece of the same kind that can be folded upward in the form of a folding piece (3) similar to a drawbridge in order to provide an unobstructed transversal passage (D), for example, for a fork-lift truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Knapp Logistik Automation GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Freudelsperger
  • Ammonia vapor storage and purge system and method
    Patent number: 7770384
    Abstract: A method of operating a reductant delivery and storage system of a vehicle, comprising of storing an ammonia-containing fluid in a first storage device, generating ammonia vapors in the first storage device and storing said generated ammonia vapors in a second storage device, purging said stored vapors from the second storage device to an exhaust of the engine, delivering said ammonia-containing fluid to said exhaust of the engine, and adjusting at least one of an amount of ammonia-containing fluid delivered and an amount of vapors purged to said exhaust based on the other of said at least one of said amount of ammonia-containing fluid delivered and said amount of vapors purged to said exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Oberski, Giovanni Cavataio, Michiel J. van Nieuwstadt, Timothy Webb, William Ruona
  • Method and system for estimating an air-intake amount of an internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7769523
    Abstract: A method of estimating an air-intake amount of an internal combustion engine is provided. The method may comprise detecting a fluid energy amount in an interior of an air-intake passage at first and second points in time while an intake valve is closed from a compression stroke to an exhaust stroke, and calculating a predicted air-intake amount using the values of the fluid energy amounts at the first and second points with reference to an air-intake amount calculation map showing a correlation between the values of the fluid energy amounts at the first and second points and the predicted air-intake amount in the intake stroke, the air-intake amount calculation map being pre-created by finding the values of the fluid energy amounts in the air-intake passage at the first and second points and the air-intake amount, for plural running states of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirohide Matsushima, Kenji Takenaka, Takashi Abe, Ryo Suzuki, Takuya Sakamoto, Yoshinobu Mori
  • Cylinder charge temperature control for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7765994
    Abstract: A method for controlling exhaust gas recirculation is presented. In one embodiment, exhaust gases are routed from the exhaust manifold through a cylinder and into an intake manifold. In some embodiments, the method may be used when a large amount of EGR is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Vincent J. Winstead
  • Method and apparatus for operating cooperating, differing devices
    Patent number: 7770045
    Abstract: A method for operating cooperating, differing devices, particularly of a plant, with different controls controlling the control sequences and in particular with different control cycles, is characterized in that the clocks (IPOi) of the different controls (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) are interpolated on a common system clock (tTick) and that the control sequences are synchronized. An apparatus suitable for performing the inventive method correspondingly has at least one common interpolating device (5.3) for the controls (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) for interpolating the cycles (IPOi) of the different controls (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) on a common system clock (tTick) and at least one synchronizing device (5) for synchronizing the control sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Gmeiner
  • Wheel suspension for a vehicle
    Patent number: 7766354
    Abstract: A wheel suspension is provided for a vehicle (7), with a carrier element (5), a wheel carrier (1) arranged at a spaced location from the carrier element (5) and a wheel (14) mounted rotatably on the wheel carrier (1). The wheel carrier (1) is connected to the carrier element (5) via a first guide (3; 17) and a first pivotable connection (10) and the wheel carrier (1) is connected to the carrier element (5) via a second guide (2; 4) and a second pivotable connection (8; 12). A first angle-measuring device (27, 28) is integrated in the first pivotable connection (10) and a second angle-measuring device (44, 45) is integrated in the second pivotable connection (8; 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Metin Ersoy, Andreas Gärtner, Thomas Rosemeier
  • Case protector
    Patent number: D621417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: T.M. Designworks, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy McGarry