Patents Assigned to E
  • Film folding and supplying apparatus for stretch film packaging machines
    Patent number: 7096644
    Abstract: A film folding and supplying apparatus for machines for packaging products with stretchable film comprising a pleating means for folding ends of a film traveling in a direction, to modify the width of the film in such a manner that the last edges of the film on the bottom of a product to be wrapped do not laterally project from the bottom of the product. The pleating means cooperates with rolling friction of the traveling film and comprises an elongate, flat and fixed guide having longitudinal edges with projecting rows of flat, idle and rounded edges wheels; and respective lateral guides having projecting rows of flat, idle and wheels with rounded edges which fold the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: A.W.A.X. Progettazione E Ricerca S.r.l.
    Inventor: Renato Rimondi
  • Lighting system and method and apparatus for adjusting same
    Publication number: 20060187081
    Abstract: A lighting system and method and apparatus for adjusting same are described. The lighting system has LED lighting units. To adjust a lighting unit, a programmer is connected to the lighting unit, lighting information (such as color or brightness) is input into the programmer (either manually or electronically), and data representing the lighting information is transmitted from the programming device to the lighting unit. The data is stored in the lighting unit, and one or more of the LEDs emits light that corresponds to the transmitted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Gloisten, Kevin Cannarili, Peter Buitenkant, Glenn Schmidt, Frederick Reisfeld
  • Flameless boiler
    Publication number: 20060185621
    Abstract: A flameless boiler comprising generator means for generating heat in fluid circulated therethrough by shearing of the fluid; a prime mover drivingly connected to the generator means for shearing of the fluid; a supply reservoir for the fluid; a first pump for circulating the fluid from the supply reservoir to the generator means; and a pressure vessel in fluid communication with the generator means for receiving heated fluid therefrom, the pressure vessel having an outlet for drawing steam therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: PD&E Resource Services Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Foster, Dorothy Foster
  • Topical cosmetic compositions comprising alpha arbutin
    Publication number: 20060188559
    Abstract: This invention is a topical tyrosinase inhibiting combination using alpha arbutin and bearberry extract, in synergism, for the purpose of skin lightening. The active admixture is a dermatological serum comprised of alpha arbutin, octyl stearate and polyolprepolymer-2, introduced onto the human skin in liposome form for ultra-deep penetration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: E. T. Browne Drug Co.
    Inventors: Arnold Neis, Robert Neis, Jerry Whittemore
  • Low-power hand-held transaction device
    Patent number: 7093759
    Abstract: An electronic hand-held device and method for inputting and sending requests and for receiving and outputting responses to the requests. The electronic hand-held device is a coupled to a telecommunications link over which requests are sent and responses are received. The electronic hand-held device can input request data in any number of different information media, including audio tones and voice signals, mechanical input to a keypad, printed bar codes, magnetic data stored in credit cards, and electronic data stored in electronic smart cards. The electronic hand-held device can output responses through an audio speaker, a visual LCD display device, and, optionally, through other output devices including printers. The electronic hand-held device is especially well suited for order entry and acquisition of product information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E-Comm Incorporated
    Inventor: Joseph F. Walsh
  • Television tuning system
    Patent number: 7095453
    Abstract: An improved television control system includes a tuner (15), a memory (13), a keyboard (14) and a controller (11). The tuner (15) selects one channel from a multi-channel television signal based upon a channel selection input. The multi-channel television signal carries the signals for a set of received television channels. The memory (13) contains a favorite channel list that includes a list of channel identifiers, each channel identifier corresponding to one of a subset of the set of channels received by the tuner (15). The keyboard (14) includes a favorite channel button (16) and a favorite program button (16) as well as a numeric keypad (30) and channel up/down keys (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E Guide, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry C. Yuen
  • Substituted barium titanate and barium strontium titanate ferroelectric compositions
    Patent number: 7094721
    Abstract: This invention provides the three novel La,Fe, La,Cr and Sm,Fe substituted barium titanate solid solution ferroelectric compositions with the formula Ba1?xLnxTi1?xMxO3 wherein when Ln is La, M is Fe or Cr, when Ln is Sm, M is Fe and x is from about 0.02 to about 0.06 and mixtures thereof, the novel La,Fe substituted barium strontium titanate solid solution ferroelectric compositions with the formula (Ba1?ySry)1?xLaxTi1?xFexO3 wherein y is greater than zero and less than about 0.6 and x is from about 0.01 to about 0.06 and the novel La,Al substituted barium strontium titanate solid solution ferroelectric compositions with the formula (Ba1?ySry)1?xLaxTi1?x/4?3a/4Ala}(x?a)/4O3 wherein } denotes a vacancy, y is greater than zero and less than about 0.6, a is from about 0.01 to about 0.06 and x is from 0.02 to about 0.10 with the proviso that x is greater than or equal to a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Dong Li, Munirpallam Appadorai Subramanian
  • High-resolution 3D ultrasonic transmission imaging
    Patent number: 7094205
    Abstract: A system for providing high resolution imaging of objects having sub-millimeter dimensions comprised of at least one transmitter, at least one receiver, a coupling chamber, and a processor for recording attenuation and time of flight profiles of the transmitted signals. The signals are conditioned in a manner to provide high signal-to-noise ration (SNR) and minimal crosstalk and multipath effects at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California
    Inventor: Vasilis Z. Marmarelis
  • Nucleic acid fragments for the identification of bacteria in industrial wastewater bioreactors
    Patent number: 7094893
    Abstract: Unique bacterial strains and identifying 16S rDNA sequences have been isolated from activated wastewater sludge. The 16S rDNA sequences are diagnostic for organisms which are key to the health of activated sludge wastewater systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Michael G. Bramucci, Mario W. Chen, Helene M. Albertson-Kane, Vasantha Nagarajan
  • 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-nonafluoro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone refrigerant compositions and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7094356
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for use in refrigeration and air conditioning systems comprising 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-nonafluoro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone and at least one chlorocarbon, alcohol, ketone, ether, ester, N-(difluoromethyl)-N,N-dimethylamine, 1,1,1,2,2-pentafluoro-2-[(pentafluoroethyl)thio]ethane or mixtures thereof, and which are also useful in systems employing a centrifugal compressor The compositions of the present invention may be azeotropic or near azeotropic and are useful in processes for producing refrigeration or heat or as heat transfer fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. dupont deNemours and Company
    Inventors: Barbara Haviland Minor, Thomas J. Leck
  • Graft oligomeric electrolytes
    Patent number: 7094501
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions prepared by free-radical-driven grafting onto hydrocarbons or hydrocarbon ethers of olefinically unsaturated fluorocarbons containing sulfonyl fluoride, fluorosulfonate, fluorosulfonimide, or fluorosulfonyl methide groups, wherein the grafting step is followed by a hydrolysis step in the case of sulfonyl fluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Hanne Anna Katharina Blau, Pui-Yan Lin, José Manuel Rodriguez-Parada
  • Internal biochemical sensing device
    Patent number: 7096053
    Abstract: A biosensing device for detecting biological analytes, and methods of use and manufacture, are disclosed. The device includes a biosensing element that can remain implanted for extended periods of time. The biosensing element is connected to an optical fiber terminating outside of the body. The optical fiber is also connected to an information analyzer. The information analyzer directs light through the optical fiber into the biosensing element. The light excites fluorophores, created by a chemical reaction between analytes and biosensing material within the biosensing element. Emitted fluorescent light is redirected through the optical fiber to the information analyzer. Optical gratings within the filtering member of the information analyzer selectively deflect fluorescent emissions into a cladding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California
    Inventors: Gerald E. Loeb, Thomas George
  • 3GT/4GT biocomponent fiber and preparation thereof
    Patent number: 7094466
    Abstract: Disclosed are side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core bicomponent fibers comprising a poly(trimethylene terephthalate) component and a poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) component and preparation and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Jing C. Chang
  • Reclining chair
    Publication number: 20060181118
    Abstract: A reclining chair, in particular a passenger chair, for use in a vehicle such as an aircraft, bus or mobile home. The chair includes a base assembly, a seat frame located above the base assembly, a seat attached to the seat frame, and a seat back connected to the seat frame. In various embodiments, the chair includes features such as an energy absorbing base assembly, an adjustable arm rest, a fully reclining seat back and a seat that increases its angle with respect to the horizontal as the seat back reclines, thereby forcing one back into the chair. The seat and seat back is also capable of achieving a fully horizontal position when the seat back is fully reclined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: B/E AEROSPACE, INC.
    Inventors: John Williamson, Kurt Anglese
  • Electrophoresis device, method of driving electrophoresis device, and electronic apparatus
    Publication number: 20060181504
    Abstract: An electrophoresis device includes a pair of substrates, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a common electrode formed on the pair of substrates, a liquid material formed by dispersing charged particles sealed between the pair of substrates and a driving circuit for applying a voltage to the pixel electrodes and the common electrode to generate an electric field therebetween. When display image is changed, the driving circuit generates a first electric field between all the pixel electrodes and the common electrode to delete the image displayed by that time over the entire display region. Then, when new display image is written, the driving circuit generates a second electric field between the pixel electrodes corresponding to display and the common electrode, and generates a third electric field between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes not corresponding to display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicants: Seiko Epson Corporation, E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kawai
  • Device for swallowing powder granular or granulated substances
    Publication number: 20060180148
    Abstract: A device for taking powdered substances has a storage receptacle and a supply tube having a first end for dispensing the substances and a pivotably supported second end that has a unitary cylinder wall pivotably mounted on a stationary cylinder body having a through bore. The supply tube is pivotable back and forth between a first position of non-use and a second position of use. In the first position, the substance is air-tightly closed off in the storage receptacle. In the second position, the substance enters the supply tube. The unitary cylinder wall has a through opening. The supply tube has an inner opening. In the first position, the inner opening of the supply tube and the through opening of the unitary cylinder wall do not communicate with the through bore of the cylinder body; in the second position, they communicate with the through bore of the cylinder body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: E. Braun GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Beller
  • Health care patient benefits eligibility research system and business method
    Publication number: 20060184397
    Abstract: The software of the present invention provides a means for creating a file of unpaid claims for a service provider. The software is used to create one or more queries to compare information in the file of claims against records in a benefit provider's database to determine the eligibility status of the claim. A file is created containing each claim for which a matching record in the benefit provider's database is found, and the information from that matching record. A report can be generated from the file of matching claims and benefit provider records, so the claims can be submitted for payment by the service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: E-Scan Data Systems
    Inventor: John Wester
  • METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20060181492
    Abstract: An electro-optic display comprises a bistable electro-optic medium, a plurality of pixel electrodes, with associated non-linear elements, and a common electrode, disposed on opposed sides of the electro-optic medium. The display has a writing mode, in which at least two different voltages are applied to different pixel electrodes, and a non-writing mode in which the voltages applied to the pixel electrodes are controlled so that any image previously written on the electro-optic medium is substantially maintained. The display is arranged to apply to the common electrode a first voltage when the display is in its writing mode and a second voltage, different from the first voltage, when the display is in its non-writing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Holly Gates, Karl Amundson
  • 3-hydroxycarboxylic acid production and use in branched polymers
    Patent number: 7091011
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of a 3-hydroxycarboxylic acid from a 3-hydroxynitrile. More specifically, 3-hydroxyvaleronitrile is converted to 3-hydroxyvaleric acid in high yield at up to 100% conversion, using as an enzyme catalyst 1) nitrile hydratase activity and amidase activity or 2) nitrilase activity of a microbial cell. 3-Hydroxyvaleric acid is used as a substitute for ?-caprolactone in the preparation of highly branched copolyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Michael G. Bramucci, Robert Dicosimo, Robert Fallon, John E. Gavagan, Frank Herkes, Lech Wilczek
  • Esterification catalysts and processes therefor and therewith
    Patent number: RE39246
    Abstract: A catalyst composition is disclosed. The composition comprises a titanium compound, a complexing agent, hypophosphorous acid or its metal salt, water and optionally a solvent. The complexing agent can be hydroxycarboxylic acid, alkanolamines, aminocarboxylic acids, or combinations of two or more thereof. The solvent can be water, ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, butanol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, isopropylene glycol, butylene glycol, 1-methyl propylene glycol, pentylene glycol, or combinations of two or more thereof. The titanium compound can be combined with a zirconium compound. Also disclosed is a process for using the composition for producing an ester or a polyester. The process comprises contacting a carbonyl compound, in the presence of the compositions, with an alcohol under a condition suitable for esterification, transesterification, polymerization, or combinations of two or more thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Donald Edward Putzig