Patents Assigned to A & A Company
  • Soybean cultivar 031766
    Patent number: 6774286
    Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 031766, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 031766, to the plants of soybean 031766 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the cultivar 031766 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 031766 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm Inc., Asgrow Seed Company LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Turbine blade core cooling apparatus and method of fabrication
    Patent number: 6773231
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cooling apparatus for cooling a turbine blade. The cooling apparatus comprises a pressure side plate comprising a plurality of pressure ribs, a suction side plate comprising a plurality of suction ribs, and a plurality of flow redirection areas. The pressure side plate is disposed over the suction side plate, where the pressure ribs are disposed at a first angle with respect to a blade span reference line and the suction ribs are disposed at a second angle with respect to the blade span reference line, to form the flow redirection areas. The present invention provides a method of fabricating the cooling apparatus for the turbine blade comprising aligning the pressure side plate and the suction side plate to form the plurality of flow redirection areas between the pressure side plate and the suction side plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ronald Scott Bunker, Frederic Joseph Klug, Shyh-Chin Huang, Susan Marie Hyde, Nirm Velumylum Nirmalan
  • Macroporous ink receiving media
    Patent number: 6773769
    Abstract: The invention provides an ink receiving medium comprising a macroporous substrate having a fluid management system and having a pigment management system in contact with surfaces of macropores of the substrate therein. In one embodiment, the pigment management system comprises water-soluble multivalent metal salt and the fluid management system comprises surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Mark F. Schulz, Omar Farooq
  • One-piece inner nozzle and clamping device for holding such a nozzle
    Patent number: 6772922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping device including at least two assemblies each composed of a clamp (10) pivoting about a horizontal axis (11) and fitted with a groove (12) receiving a shoe (13) generally cylindrical in shape incorporating a flat surface (14) parallel to the axis of said cylinder, said shoe being capable of pivoting in the groove. The present invention also relates to a one-piece inner nozzle (2) particularly adapted for use with this clamping device. The one-piece inner nozzle according to the invention is thus composed of a tubular part (6) defining a pouring channel (4) and a flat part or plate (7) providing contact with the downstream component (8) of the pouring channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Vesuvius Crucible Company
    Inventors: Jean-luc Renard, Vincent Boisdequin, Calogero Lattuca, Mariano Collura
  • Lightweight motorcycle wheel
    Patent number: 6773077
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motorcycle wheel that includes a rim, a hub, and a spoke. The rim is adapted to receive a motorcycle tire and the hub is adapted to receive and support a motorcycle axle. The spoke extends between the rim and the hub. The spoke includes first and second walls that are separated by a distance. The first and second walls are substantially entirely unconnected to each other between the hub and the rim. The spokes are all connected to the hub substantially centered about a central plane and connected to the rim on one side of the central plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Buell Motorcycle Company
    Inventors: Erik F. Buell, Vance C. Strader, Abraham Askenazi, Julian A. Galgoczy
  • Reduction of inorganic contaminants in polymers and photoresist compositions comprising same
    Patent number: 6773872
    Abstract: The present invention provides polymers which are substantially or completely free of inorganic contaminants and the use of such polymers as a resin component for photoresist compositions, particularly chemically-amplified positive-acting resists. Polymers of the invention also are suitable for use as a resin component for antireflective coating compositions (ARCs). More particularly, the invention provides methods for reducing such contaminants in polymerization initiators, particularly free radical initiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dana A. Gronbeck, Suzanne Coley, Chi Q. Truong, Ashish Pandya
  • Sulfur trioxide delivery system
    Patent number: 6773490
    Abstract: A process for reversible sorption of sulfur trioxide onto a sorbent comprising a) contacting from about 15% to 100% sulfur trioxide with the sorbent under anhydrous conditions at a temperature of from about 35° C. to about 150° C. thereby sorbing the sulfur trioxide onto the sorbent, b) desorbing sulfur trioxide from the sorbent at a temperature of from about 150° C. to about 350° C. at about atmospheric pressure, or under a vacuum pressure, and c) recycling said sorbent by continuously repeating steps a) and b), wherein said sorbent consists essentially of silica or zeolite having a silicon to aluminum ratio in the ranges of from about 1 to about 4.4 or greater than about 5.1, and having a pore size of at least 0.5 nm is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Stephen Ernest Jacobson, Howard M. Blank, David Richard Corbin
  • Methods and apparatus for facilitating preventing failure of gas turbine engine blades
    Patent number: 6773234
    Abstract: A method enables a rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine to be fabricated. The method includes forming a blade including an airfoil extending from an integral dovetail used to mount the blade within the rotor assembly, and extending a projection from at least a portion of the blade, such that the stresses induced within at least a portion of the blade are facilitated to be maintained below a predetermined failure threshold for the blade to facilitate preventing failure of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sunil Kumar Sinha, Max Farson, Ming Cheng Li, Paul Izon, Nicholas Joseph Kray
  • Common software application definition for resource management
    Patent number: 6775825
    Abstract: A system and method for generating and sharing consistent application definitions amongst multiple performance and resource management tools. A common interface accepts requests from performance or resource management tools and returns requested process-to-application mapping data. A parameters file contains a common syntax for application definitions, and a module uses the parameters file to determine mapping from processes into applications. A performance monitoring tool for senses current system processes' states and provides measurement data to the mapping module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Doug Grumann, Michael Richard Carl, Thomas Edwin Turicchi, Jr.
  • Pivotable and flexible razor assembly and cartridge
    Patent number: 6772523
    Abstract: A pivotable and/or flexible razor cartridge is provided. The cartridge may be adapted to flex through a neutral plane which extends through a shaving aid thereof. In an alternate embodiment, the cartridge may be both flexible and pivotable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Richard, Thomas Follo, Andrew Pennella
  • Controlling syngas H2:CO ratio by controlling feed hydrocarbon composition
    Patent number: 6773691
    Abstract: A method for generating syngas having a H2:CO ratio of less than 2:1 including selecting a predetermined desired syngas H2:CO molar ratio, selecting a hydrocarbon with a natural H2:CO molar ratio less than the desired ratio, selecting a hydrocarbon with a natural H2:CO molar ratio greater than the desired ratio, mixing the two hydrocarbons such that the natural H2:CO molar ratio of the mixture is the desired ratio, and catalytically partially oxidizing the mixture to produce syngas with the desired ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Sriram Ramani, Joe D. Allison, Alfred E. Keller
  • Packaging liner insertion apparatuses and methods for flexible container liners
    Patent number: 6773385
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for inserting flexible bags and other liners into open packaging containers. One or more engagement heads engage and position the flexible liners in preparation for their insertion into open containers using an insertion assembly. One or more of the engagement heads are preferably made with vacuum heads that are movable to open the liner for the insertion assembly. A cuffing assembly can be included for cuffing the open end of the liners over the top edges of the open containers. Clamping assemblies can be included on the cuffing assembly to facilitate holding the liners during insertion and cuffing. The use of an engagement assembly, insertion assembly, and cuffing assembly which are independently driven helps to provide greater speed and operational flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: R. A. Pearson Company
    Inventors: Michael Johnson, Richard McQuary, Gordon Langlot, Larry Horton
  • Coil
    Patent number: 6774757
    Abstract: Metallic coils sheets (34, 36, 38) are planar and include center windows (34a, 36a, 38a). Slits (34b, 36b, 38b) extend outward through the respective sheets from the windows. Connection terminals (34c, 34d; 36c, 36d; 38c, 38d) are provided on the sheets at locations facing across the respective slits. The metallic coil sheets are stacked, and adjacent ones of the stacked metallic coil sheets are electrically connected by means of the connection terminals. A core (60, 62) is disposed in the windows of the stacked metallic coil sheets. The metallic coil sheets are individually covered with an insulating coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Sansha Electric Manufacturing Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshikazu Fujiyoshi, Masao Katooka, Tetsuro Ikeda, Kenji Morimoto, Hideo Ishii
  • Protected coating for energy efficient lamp
    Patent number: 6773141
    Abstract: A reflector lamp has a generally parabolic shaped housing (12) with an interior surface coated with a layer (14) of silver having a protective layer (16) of a stable protective oxide, such as silica, disposed thereon. An intermediate layer (18), such as a layer of elemental silicon, protects the silver layer during deposition of the silica layer and is completely or substantially consumed during formation of the silica layer. The lamp includes a light source (48) having a longitudinal axis (x) disposed on the parabolic reflector axis and preferably disposed outward of the parabolic focus (F). During lamp fabrication, the protective coating is preferably annealed to improve reflectance. The preferred lamp will have a lumens per watt greater than 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Tianji Zhao, Rajasingh Schwartz Israel, Frederick Walter Dynys, Thomas Gene Parham
  • Reinforced thermoplastic pipe manufacture
    Patent number: 6773773
    Abstract: A fiber reinforced thermoplastic pipe member is obtained by a novel continuous process in which the reinforcement fibers are wrapped about the outer pipe surface in an unbonded condition while the pipe member continuously moves in a linear direction and which is followed by sufficient heating of the moving fiber wrapped pipe member to cause thermal bonding between the applied fibers and the pipe member. Automated apparatus for carrying out the continuous process is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: ADC Acquisition Company
    Inventor: David Edgar Hauber
  • Buffer page roll implementation for PCI-X block read transactions
    Patent number: 6775758
    Abstract: A computer system containing logic for processing a read block transaction from a PCI-X device. A technique is also disclosed for processing a read block transaction from a PCI-X device. The technique is defined by PCI-X specifications wherein the read block transaction is processed accordingly in a computer system. The technique determines whether the transaction is a read block and whether the transaction crosses a memory boundary. The technique also determines whether a page roll is required and administers one if it is required. Furthermore, the technique provides a means for reading and delivering the data to a PCI-X device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Paras Shah
  • Method of assembly an annular antenna to a transponder
    Patent number: 6772505
    Abstract: A method of assembling the annular antenna and transponder tag includes formation of the antenna wire with an insulating cover therearound; cutting the covered antenna to length; stripping antenna wire ends; threading one antenna wire end through the transponder; splicing the antenna wire ends together; and injecting an insulating composition around the transponder tag and spliced antenna ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Brian Matthew Logan, Robert Charles Schisler, James William Prentis, David Scott Persinger, Timothy Joseph Severt
  • Meltblown process with mechanical attenuation
    Patent number: 6773648
    Abstract: Cellulose containing dope is extruded through orifices and into a stream of gas moving in a direction generally parallel to the direction that the filaments are formed with varying degrees of mechanical attenuation provided to the filaments using a take-up device, such as a winder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser Company
    Inventors: Mengkui Luo, Vincent A. Roscelli, Senen Camarena, Amar N. Neogi, John S. Selby
  • Pumpkin costume
    Patent number: D493945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: WESCO Company, S.A.
    Inventor: Christelle Miss Bourget
  • Prismatic refractor with circumferential prisms
    Patent number: D494308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Kenneth Sales