Patents Represented by Law Firm Watson, Cole, Grindle et al.
  • Patent number: 4506830
    Abstract: The device includes a pressure-reducing chamber arranged immediately upstream of an air conditioning diffuser. It includes a shutter which pivots about an axis and which tends to reduce the useful area of the diffuser in question, under the action of a counterweight.The air introduced into the chamber, by means of a normally open motorized damper, exerts on one of the faces of the shutter, a pressure which tends to oppose the effect of the counterweight and tends to increase the useful area of the diffuser.A sensor which serves as a stop during the opening of the shutter, reacts on the motorized damper to tend towards a balance of the forces applied on the shutter, for a particular area of diffusion defined by the position of the sensor.The displacement of the sensor, operated by an ambient thermostat for example, enables the variation of the airflow by changing the free area of circulation.The speed of circulation is practically constant and depends on the counterweight acting on the shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Inventor: Georges Francel
  • Patent number: 4430565
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber optical measuring device for measuring physical and/or chemical parameters. The device comprises a transducer unit and an evaluating unit, connected via at least one light conductor. One or more light sources in the evaluating unit, via said at least one light conductor, illuminate one or more optical filters located in the transducer unit which filter(s) is (are) sensitive to the parameter being measured. An optical detector arrangement in the evaluating unit analyzes the light emanating from the transducer unit. The detector arrangement consists of one or more photo-detectors, arranged to sense the light emitted from the transducer unit after this light has been affected by at least one filter belonging to the detector arrangement. The spectral properties of the detector filter(s) are controlled so that the detector arrangement is able to measure the correlation between the spectra of the transducer and detector filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: ASEA Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Torgny Brogardh, Lars Sander