Patents Represented by Law Firm Wood, Herron & Evan
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Patent number: 8342491Abstract: A transport system for transporting at least one blade or spar for a wind turbine. The blade or spar has a root end and a tip end. The transport system comprises a root frame structure for holding the root end and a fixation device adapted to fixate and support the blade or spar between the root end and tip end.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventors: Henning Jørgensen, Jens Jessen Hansen
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Patent number: 8343132Abstract: A method includes inserting a distal end portion of a needle of a medical injector into a skin of a body. An energy source operatively coupled to the medical injector is actuated such that a dermal filler is conveyed from the medical injector into the skin through the distal end portion of the needle. The distal end portion of the needle is moved within the skin during the actuating.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Scott Heneveld, John R. Krumme, Stacy R. Smith, Christian Walton
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Patent number: 8343029Abstract: A transseptal cannula assembly for directing blood from the heart of a patient and a minimally invasive method of implanting the same. The transseptal cannula assembly includes a flexible cannula body having proximal and distal portions with a lumen therebetween, a tip coupled to the distal portion of the flexible cannula body, and first and second anchors coupled to the tip. The anchors can be configured to be deployed from a contracted state to an expanded state and are configured to engage opposite sides of the heart tissue when in the expanded state. The anchors resist movement of the cannula assembly along a lengthwise central axis of the flexible cannula body.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Circulite, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Farnan, Scott A. Olson, Elizabeth Jung, Andrew J. Dusbabek, Robert G. Hudgins
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Patent number: 8341765Abstract: A training garment is provided for use by a swimmer. The garment includes a layer of material that is configured to conform to a body portion of the swimmer, and a plurality of pockets that extend from the layer of material for increasing drag on the swimmer as the body portion is moved in a preselected direction of movement. At least one of the pockets has first and second conditions. In the first condition, drag is increased by that pocket on the swimmer as the body portion moves in the preselected direction of movement. In the second condition, drag is not increased by that pocket on the swimmer as the body portion moves in the preselected direction of movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Inventor: Ralph R Brodbeck
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Patent number: 8342318Abstract: Suspension devices for suspending strings of sausages in loops. The suspension device may include hooks configured for carrying a loop of the string of sausages and a guide and drive device coupled with the hooks. The guide and drive device is configured for guiding and driving the hooks along a path of movement. The guide and drive device has a drivable circulating drive element for spaced receiving of the hooks and for driving the hooks. The suspension device may include a height-altering device that alters the height of the hooks during the movement of the hooks along the path of movement.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbHInventor: Peter Knodel
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Patent number: 8343684Abstract: Fuel cell devices and systems are provided. In certain embodiments, the devices include a ceramic support structure having a length, a width, and a thickness. A reaction zone positioned along a portion of the length is configured to be heated to an operating reaction temperature, and has at least one active layer therein comprising an electrolyte separating first and second opposing electrodes, and active first and second gas passages adjacent the respective first and second electrodes. At least one cold zone positioned from the first end along another portion of the length is configured to remain below the operating reaction temperature. An artery flow passage extends from the first end along the length through the cold zone and into the reaction zone and is fluidicly coupled to the active first gas passage, which extends from the artery flow passage toward at least one side. The thickness of the artery flow passage is greater than the thickness of the active first gas passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Inventors: Alan Devoe, Lambert Devoe
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Patent number: 8343051Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for modifying unwanted tissue for cosmetic reasons. The methods provide a non-invasive manner to perform body contouring by destroying adipose tissue while simultaneously causing collagen contraction in a single procedure so that as destroyed tissue is removed from a treatment volume, the volume shrinks gradually to maintain the skin tone of the treatment area. The procedure may involve multiple treatments to the same treatment area or location.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: LipoSonix, Inc.Inventors: Charles S. Desilets, Cameron Pollock
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Patent number: 8342058Abstract: A torsional vibration damper includes an inertia mass and a rotating shaft or hub with an elastomeric ring between the inertia mass and the rotating shaft or hub. A large portion of said elastomeric member is located in a channel located either in the inertia mass or in the hub. This allows one to achieve high contact pressure without creating a significant fatigue on the elastomeric member. This can be used with either a crankshaft damper or an internal or external drive shaft damper.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Hillsdale Automotive, LLCInventors: Bruce G. Christenson, Suhale Manzoor
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Patent number: 8346160Abstract: A signal repeating system for a wireless network includes an antenna configured for transceiving signals between a base station and a user equipment device. Repeating circuitry is coupled to the antenna and defines an uplink path for signals from the user equipment device to the base station and a downlink path for signals from the base station to the user equipment device. The repeating circuitry includes gain circuitry and gain control circuitry that is coupled to the gain circuitry. The gain control circuitry is operable for varying the gain of the repeating circuitry according to a waveform. Measurement circuitry measures the receive power in the uplink path over time from the user equipment device. Processing circuitry cross-correlates the inverted gain variation waveform with the measured receive power for determining the existence of traffic from user equipment devices in the uplink path.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Andrew LLCInventor: Thomas Kummetz
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Patent number: 8342921Abstract: An aircraft air conditioning system includes a cyclone unit positioned proximate to at least one discharger, the unit having an inlet opening, which communicates with a fresh air supply line, an intake opening, through which air is sucked in from the aircraft cabin, and at least one outlet opening, which communicates with the at least one discharger. A first, cyclone flow of only fresh air is produced in the cyclone unit during operation of the aircraft air conditioning system, the first cyclone flow tending to draw cabin air into the cyclone unit via the intake opening for mixture with the fresh air, after which a second cyclone flow of the cabin air and fresh air are expelled through the outlet opening and the at least one discharger.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbHInventors: Alfred Huber, Jacek Kogut, Thomas Treimer, Slawa Babak
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Patent number: 8344746Abstract: A system, probe interface, and method to test an integrated circuit with an electrostatic discharge signal. The probe interface includes a pulse generation circuit, ground plane, and a relay matrix, while the integrated circuit includes a plurality of contact points. The probe interface is configured proximate to the integrated circuit and the relay matrix is configured to electrically connect at least one of an operative signal, the pulse generation circuit, or the ground plane to a contact point of the integrated circuit. The probe interface is thus configured to provide a shortened path for at least one of the electrostatic discharge signal from the probe interface to the integrated circuit, or to the ground plane from the integrated circuit. The probe interface may selectively electrically connect to up to about thirty-two contact points of the integrated circuit, while the system may include up to about four probe interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.Inventors: Marcos Hernandez, Enrique L. Riveros
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Patent number: 8343469Abstract: The present invention is related to surfactant-based formulations comprising the polyelectrolytes and blends of such polyelectrolytes with non-cellulosic cationic polysaccharide polymers. The surfactant-based formulations exhibit improved clarity of the resulting formulations, their improved conditioning of keratin substrates, textile substrates, and hard-surface substrates, their improved deposition of dispersed phase materials onto keratin substrates, textile substrates, and hard-surface substrates, their improved lather performance, and their improved rheology in applications such as personal care and household care products and textile applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Hercules IncorporatedInventors: Patric Bierganns, Paquita Erazo-Majewicz, Nabil Naouli
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Patent number: 8336610Abstract: A device for temperature control in an aircraft cabin includes a first supply control arrangement and a first pressure control arrangement. The first supply control arrangement includes an air duct and a valve arrangement that controls a supply of heated air delivered to a first temperature area of the aircraft cabin such that a first specified temperature for the first temperature zone is achieved. When the valve arrangement fails, the first pressure control arrangement operates to control a pressure of heated air supplied into the first temperature area such that the first specified temperature for the first temperature zone is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbHInventors: Nico Centofante, Markus Petrac, Thomas Scherer, Uwe Buchholz
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Patent number: 8336486Abstract: There is provided a tape core wire manufacturing apparatus that makes it possible to manufacture a large variety of tape core wires in small quantities with ease, and in addition, makes it easy to apply a uniform coating over a broad width. In the tape core wire manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, a coating apparatus that applies a coating material to respective optical fiber core wires has a coating head that moves in the longitudinal direction relatively to the respective optical fiber core wires that have been placed in a row on a coating jig. The coating head has a position adjustment surface that is located in the vicinity of a coating member of the coating head and adjusts the positioning in the thickness direction of the respective optical fiber core wires when these are in the form of a tape. This position adjustment surface is pressed against the respective optical fiber core wires. The coating head is also able to be tilted in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Tomoeagawa Paper Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoichi Sasaki, Masayoshi Suzuki, Ken Sukegawa
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Patent number: 8337737Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a liquid onto a substrate includes a dispenser body having an output and a reservoir in fluid communication with the output, the reservoir being defined by a wall and adapted to hold a supply of liquid to be dispensed. A piston is disposed in the reservoir and adapted to pressurize the liquid so that an amount of liquid is dispensed from the output of the dispenser. The piston includes a base portion having an outer periphery and having a first hardness, and a skirt portion integrally molded to the outer periphery of the base portion and having a second hardness lower than the first hardness. A two-shot molding operation may be used to form the piston with the base portion being, for example, formed in the first shot of the molding operation and the skirt portion being formed in the second shot of the molding operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Steven G. Costa, David J. Dunlap
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Patent number: 8336186Abstract: A filter setting and sealing apparatus includes a wobble plate mounted to press a filter edge into a plane defined by the top rim of a brew cup. A sealer defined by expandable sealer jaws is moveable into the filter. The jaws are actuated for radial outward expansion to seal the filter to the cup proximate the filter rim and cup edge. A second sealer is used to seal any gaps remaining in the seal after initial sealing.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Packaging Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James A. Bloome, Kelly D. Eastman, Rick A. Meeker, Rodney P. Smith
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Patent number: 8338806Abstract: A processing system is provided for irradiating a substrate with a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB). The system includes a nozzle for forming and emitting gas cluster beams through a nozzle outlet, and a stagnation chamber that is located upstream of and adjacent the nozzle. The stagnation chamber has an inlet, and the nozzle is configured to direct a single gas cluster beam toward the substrate. An ionizer is positioned downstream of the outlet and is configured to ionize the gas cluster beam to form the GCIB. The system also includes a gas supply that is in fluid communication with the inlet of the stagnation chamber, and which includes a gas source and a valve located between the gas source and the nozzle for controlling flow of a gas between the gas source and the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: TEL Epion Inc.Inventors: Michael Graf, Robert K. Becker, Christopher T. Reddy, Noel Russell
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Patent number: D673276Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Reliance Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Chris M. Jamison, H. Ray Wright, Antonio Belton, Dominik J. Beck
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Patent number: D673329Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Inventor: Daniel L. Batsch
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Patent number: D673594Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventor: Charles P. Ganzer