Patents Assigned to ECS, Corporation
  • Publication number: 20090071916
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for a flip rail in a rack mount are disclosed herein. A flip rail apparatus for allowing full width electronic equipment to be slide mounted in a rack mount case includes a rack mount frame coupled to a rack mount case. The rack mount frame is configured to hold standard rack mountable electronic equipment. The frame has a first front vertical rail and a second front vertical rail. The first vertical flip rail is attached to the first vertical rail and the second vertical flip rail is attached to the second vertical rail. The first and second vertical flip rails selectively rotate outward away from the electronic equipment in order to allow electronic equipment to be removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Environmental Container Systems, Inc. d/b/a ECS Corporation
    Inventor: Dennis M. Becklin
  • Patent number: 5092446
    Abstract: A handrail monitoring system for use in a passenger conveyor such as an escalator, moving sidewalk or the like, compares the speed of each handrail against their nominal installed speed and responds when the handrail speeds differ from nominal by a selected percentage, i.e., when the difference in speed is 5, 10, 15 or 20%, as selected by an operator. Handrail speed is compared with the nominal handrail speed which may be established over a continuous range of speeds depending upon the installation. The system outputs either an immediate audio and/or visual alarm upon excessive slowing of a handrail or a delayed audio and/or visual alarm following a selected time interval to allow for temporary, short interruptions in handrail transport not due to conveyor system malfunction, but rather frequently due to passenger interference with the handrail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: ECS Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Sullivan, Jr., Bradley A. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 5056299
    Abstract: An apparatus for successively opening the mouths of bags which are fed one by one to a table and putting such bag over a guide hopper for charging the bag with an article to be packaged. The mouth of the bag is sucked by a pair of vacuum suction members from the opposite sides. The vacuum suction members are gradually separated from each other while transferring a bag from a table to the hopper, thereby gradually opening the mouth of the bag. This prevents failures in opening bags and also prevents the bag from separating from the vacuum suction members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: ECS Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Furukawa, Hiroyoshi Odawara
  • Patent number: 5009060
    Abstract: A vacuum packaging apparatus suitable for use in packing fluid foodstuffs or the like into bags. In a chamber are disposed a pair of support members having surfaces opposite relative to each other which are individually formed with suction holes. When a bag is fed between the pair of support members, vacuum is applied through the suction holes so that opposite surfaces of the bag are sucked into the opposite surfaces of the support members. Subsequently, the support members are moved away from each other, whereupon the mouth of the bag is opened. An object is fed into the mouth-opened bag for being vacuum packed therein. The resulting vacuum packaged product is supported in position between the pair of support members, being thereby flatly shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignees: ECS Corporation, Furukawa Mfg., Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Furukawa
  • Patent number: 4869050
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for vacuum-packaging bags filled with articles and to an apparatus therefor. Such packaging bag is stored in a chamber and a vacuum is applied to the interior of the chamber; the opening edge of the packaging bag is sealed. Such chambers are suspendedly supported on a rotor rotating around a horizontal axis. The chambers are rotated with the rotor along a circular path in a vertical plane. At this time, the component force acting on a packaging bag is smaller than in the case where the chambers are rotated along a circular path in a horizontal plane. As a result, deviation of packaging bags is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: ECS Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Furukawa
  • Patent number: 4843796
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for vacuum-packaging material in a soft flat packaging bag. Packaging bags filled with a material are supported in a plurality of holders in advance in a place other than a plurality of vacuum chambers adapted to be intermittently rotated along a circular path. Such holders are successively fed to the vacuum chambers. While a vacuum chamber which has been fed with such holder is rotating along the circular path, this vacuum chamber is evacuated, the opening section of the packaging bag is sealed and then the vacuum chamber is opened to the surrounding atmosphere. And the packaging bag which has completed vacuum packaging is withdrawn from the vacuum chamber. Since the vacuum chamber is fed with a relatively large-sized holder rather than a soft flat bag which is difficult to handle, errors in feeding are avoiding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: ECS Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Furukawa
  • Patent number: 4753060
    Abstract: When filling flexible bags with a specified quantity of material, the uppermost one of the bags is opened at the mouth thereof and a spatular element is inserted into the bag while streams of gas are discharged from the surface of the element. Then, a vacuum suction force is applied to the surface of the spatular element to cause the bag to be sucked to that surface so that the bag, together with the element, is moved into a recessed wall of a stand frame. The bag is inflated in the recessed wall by discharging jets of gas from the surface of the spatular element into the bag, and simultaneously the bag is sucked to the inner surface of the recessed wall under a vacuum suction force while being held in opened condition. Subsequently, the specified quantity of material is filled into the bag. In this way, each flexible bag is moved to the stand frame while being accurately sucked to and kept in the spatular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignees: ECS Corporation, Furukawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Furukawa
  • Patent number: 4723392
    Abstract: Pressure resistant containers, each consisting of a pressure resistant box opened at the front surface thereof and a wall plate, are circulated along an endless track with the wall plates directed outward. The front and back surfaces of each wall plate are each provided with a clamp for supporting a soft pliable bag. The bag is fed to the clamp disposed outside the pressure resistant container, and the bag is clamped by the clamp. The mouth of the bag is then opened to fill the bag with an article. Subsequently, the wall plate is turned inside out to admit the bag in the pressure resistant container, and the bag is subjected to a vacuum in the pressure resistant container and the mouth of the bag is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignees: Furukawa Mfg. Co. Ltd., ECS, Corporation
    Inventor: Tadamichi Takeda
  • Patent number: D300144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignees: Furukawa Mfg. Co., Ltd., ECS Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Yasumune, Junsaku Yamada