Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Patent number: 8968133Abstract: A fluid driven rotary prime mover assembly including a turbine, a first generator, a second generator and a speed increaser is provided. The gear assembly includes a first epicyclic and a second epicyclic. The first epicyclic includes a first carrier rotationally connected to the turbine, a first sun rotationally connected to the first generator, a first annulus, and a first planet in meshing engagement with the first sun and the first annulus. The second epicyclic includes a second carrier rotationally grounded, a second sun rotationally connected to the second generator, a second annulus connected to the first annulus, and a second planet in meshing engagement with the second sun and the second annulus.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: MiVa Engineering Ltd.Inventors: Vladimir Scekic, Russell Turnbull, Daniel Constantin Popa, Soegi Hartono
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Patent number: 8971786Abstract: In a ticket printer, an end of a paper sensor has an optic emitter and receiver arranged one after the other in the paper advancement direction and operationally connected together via a signal guide. The emitter and the receiver are arranged on one side of the path of the paper whereas the signal guide is arranged on the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Custom Engineering S.p.A.Inventor: Alberto Campanini
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Patent number: 8970945Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to an optical waveguide component configured for operation with amplitude modulated optical signals at a line rate. The optical waveguide component includes a first optical waveguide segment having a first port and a second port; and a plurality of second optical waveguides each forming a closed loop. Each of the second optical waveguides is electromagnetically coupled to the first optical waveguide exactly once, and each of the closed loops has a round trip time. A product of the line rate and each of the round-trip times is equal to or greater than unity.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and ComputingInventors: Tin Komljenovic, Dubravko Ivan Babic
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Patent number: 8972093Abstract: A system, device, and methods for autonomous navigation using lane-based localization. Once example computer-implemented method includes receiving, from one or more sensors disposed on a vehicle, data representing a road surface proximate to the vehicle and removing the data falling below an adaptive threshold from the data representing the road surface to isolate data representing boundaries on the road surface. The method further includes generating detected lanes based on the data representing boundaries on the road surface by applying one or more filters, generating expected lanes proximate to the vehicle using data included in a route network definition file, comparing the detected lanes to the expected lanes, and generating a localized vehicle position based on the comparison between the detected lanes and the expected lanes.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Avdhut S. Joshi
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Patent number: 8969223Abstract: A three dimensional woven preform, a fiber reinforced composite incorporating the preform, and methods of making thereof are disclosed. The woven preform includes one or more layers of a warp steered fabric. A portion of the warp steered fabric is compressed into a mold to form an upstanding leg. The preform includes the upstanding leg and a joggle in a body portion. The body portion and upstanding leg are integrally woven so there is continuous fiber across the preform. A portion of the warp steered fabric includes stretch broken carbon fibers in the warp direction, and another portion includes conventional carbon fibers. The warp steered fabric can be woven on a loom equipped with a differential take-up mechanism. The warp steered fabric can be a single or multilayer fabric. The preform or the composite can be a portion of an aircraft window frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Goering, Craig Rowles
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Patent number: 8971487Abstract: A mobile scanning system and methods for inspecting contents of a container. Multiple detector plates are arrayed along an arcuate member coupled to a conveyance with wheels, capable of road travel. A source generates high-energy penetrating radiation that irradiates each of the detector plates from a single position. The arcuate member is disposed, during the course of operation of the system, in a vertical plane. The system has one actuator for rotating the arcuate member about a horizontal pivot into a horizontal plane, and a second actuator for further rotating the arcuate member, once rotated into the horizontal plane, about a vertical pivot, so that the arcuate member is contained, for purposes of transport, entirely within a volume defined by a rectangular prism that does not extend horizontally outward from the conveyance beyond any of its wheels.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Richard Mastronardi, David Blake, Seth Van Liew, Jeffrey Warren
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Patent number: 8968555Abstract: The present invention is a process for desulfurizing hydrocarbon feedstreams with alkali metal compounds and regenerating the alkali metal compounds via the use of a copper sulfide reagent. The present invention employs the use of a copper sulfide reagent to convert alkali metal hydrosulfides in the generation or regeneration of the alkali hydroxide compounds which may be utilized in a desulfurization process for hydrocarbon feedstreams. Additionally, in preferred embodiments of the processes disclosed herein, carbonates which form as byproducts of the desulfurization process, and are non-regenerable with copper sulfide, are removed from the alkali hydroxide stream.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Daniel P. Leta, Jonathan M. McConnachie, James R. Bielenberg, Chris A. Wright, Leo D. Brown
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Patent number: 8967700Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a first side member having first lower and upper darts. The motor vehicle also includes a second side member parallel with and spaced apart from the first side member, the second side member having second lower and upper darts. The upper darts are positioned between the lower darts and end portions of the respective first or second side members. The motor vehicle further includes first and second bumper brackets coupled to the end portion of the respective first or second side members, a bumper reinforcement member coupled to the first and second bumper brackets, and a counter rotation bracket coupled to the bumper reinforcement member and extending upwards from the bumper reinforcement member. The lower darts and the upper darts form a preferential buckling zone of the first and the second side members.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Motor CorporationInventors: Paul Maria-Antonius Slaats, Kanichi Saito, Paxton Steven Williams, Joseph Charles Walusek, Sagar Vilas Kulkarni
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Patent number: 8968551Abstract: Methods are provided for forming an asphalt fraction corresponding to a blend of asphalts, the asphalt fraction having at least one property that is unexpectedly better than the expected property value based on the individual asphalts used in the blend. The unexpectedly beneficial blends of asphalts are formed in part by including an effective amount of a Napo crude oil or crude fraction in the feed used to form the asphalt fraction. For some asphalt blends, including an effective amount of a Napo crude in the feed can allow for production of an asphalt with a low temperature performance grade that is lower than the predicted value by at least 0.5° C., such as at least 0.75° C. or at least 1.0° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Lyle Edwin Moran, Mary Josephine Gale
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Patent number: 8968514Abstract: A gas distribution device for a substrate treating apparatus includes a plurality of plasma source electrodes having a first side surface; a plurality of plasma ground electrodes having a second side surface facing the first side surface, the plurality of plasma ground electrodes being alternately arranged with the plurality of plasma source electrodes; and a first gas providing part disposed at each plasma source electrode and including a first space, a plurality of first through-holes in communication with the first space for providing a first process gas between one of the plurality of plasma source electrodes and a corresponding ones of the plurality of plasma ground electrodes, and a first discharging portion at the first side surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Chul Do, Bu-Il Jeon, Myung-Gon Song, Jung-Rak Lee
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Publication number: 20150053732Abstract: A roof-rack mechanism includes one or more retaining devices attached to a track, and a lock device engaged with the track and the retaining device for detachably attaching the retaining device to the track. The retaining device includes a base member, and a bracket attached to the base member and mounted on the track. The bracket includes a recess formed between two legs for engaging with the track, and the lock device is engaged with the track and the legs of the bracket. The retaining device includes two flaps engaged onto the legs of the bracket and secured to the legs and the track with the lock device. The retaining device includes a cover pivotally attached to the base member with a coupler.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Beto Engineering & Marketing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lo Pin WANG
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Publication number: 20150056112Abstract: Provided is a method for synthesizing liquid hydrocarbon compounds wherein synthesizing liquid hydrocarbon compounds from a synthesis gas by a Fisher-Tropsch synthesis reaction. The method includes a first absorption step of absorbing a carbon dioxide gas, which is contained in gaseous by-products generated in the Fisher-Tropsch synthesis reaction, with an absorbent, and a second absorption step of absorbing a carbon dioxide gas, which is contained in the synthesis gas, with the absorbent which is passed through the first absorption step.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicants: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, INPEX Corporation, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko Tasaka
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Publication number: 20150053280Abstract: An air valve connecting device or attachment includes a housing having an inlet barrel, a sliding member slidably engaged in the housing and having an upper portion extendible out of the housing, the sliding member includes a pathway for selectively aligning with the inlet barrel, a catching element is attached to the sliding member, a gasket is engaged in the catching element, and an inflation valve is engageable into the gasket for depressing the gasket and the catching element and the sliding member to engage into the housing and for moving the sliding member out of the housing, and the inflation valve is detachable from the housing by depressing the sliding member into the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Beto Engineering & Marketing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lo Pin WANG
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Publication number: 20150053494Abstract: A device for detecting rotation of a bicycle pedal mechanism and communicating that information to an electronic bicycle wheel motor controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Belon Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Juan Bautista Belon, Hsin-Chih Chen
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Publication number: 20150054305Abstract: A hood and, in particular, a hood inner panel for increasing pedestrian safety during a collision between a pedestrian and a motor vehicle. The hood inner panel includes two regions separated by an angled wall or a reinforcing structure which increases local rigidity. The rigidity of the hood inner panel in the vicinity of the angled wall is then adjusted for energy absorption by the inclusion of apertures which can increase the deformability of the hood inner panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North america, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Richard Steinhilb, Jeremiah Thomas Hammer
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Publication number: 20150056044Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus for transferring carts may include a transfer surface, a loading station lift, a working station lift, and a controller. The transfer surface may include a loading station and a working station arranged laterally with respect to the loading station. The loading station lift may include loading station rollers that are in rotatable engagement with the loading station lift. The working station lift may include working station rollers that are in rotatable engagement with the working station lift. The controller that can actuate the loading station lift and the working station lift between a loading state with the loading station rollers and the working station rollers offset a relatively low distance above the transfer surface and a transferring state with the loading station rollers and the working station rollers offset a relatively high distance above the transfer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Randy Lee Pfeiffer, Aaron James Wilson, Kenneth W. Raider
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Publication number: 20150056084Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile concrete pump comprising a supporting structure (46) that is placed directly or indirectly by means of an assembly frame (22) on the running gear (12) of an HGV chassis (10), the supporting structure incorporating functional units that form a support device and a placing boom (36). The placing boom (36) is rotatably mounted on a boom pedestal (44). The boom pedestal (44) comprises a vessel (52) that is inserted in the supporting structure (46) and acts as a rotary bearing for the placing boom (36), while the support device has two support leg casings (54, 56) which are integrated into the supporting structure (46), cross over one another, have diagonal passages that are open at the front and have a telescopic support leg (40) in each support leg casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Putzmeister Engineering GmbHInventor: Dietmar Fuegel
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Patent number: 8960027Abstract: Provided is a method for classifying a powder using a classifier, wherein the method comprises: a mixing step for mixing a powder and an auxiliary agent formed from an alcohol aqueous solution containing 10 to 50 mass % of an alcohol; an introduction step for introducing the powder mixed in the mixing step to the classifier; a heating step for heating a gas; a feed step for feeding the gas heated in the heating step to the classifier; and a classifying step for classifying the powder in the classifier on the basis of grain size.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Nisshin Engineering Inc.Inventors: Kazumi Kozawa, Satoshi Akiyama, Kosuke Ando
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Patent number: 8964414Abstract: A DC power supply including a resonant circuit on a secondary side of a transformer suppresses a surge voltage during power recovery of diodes constituting a rectifier circuit, correctly estimates a load current from a secondary current of the transformer, and adjusts supplied power when a load is light. The DC power supply includes a DC voltage source, a converter, a transformer, a rectifier circuit, a resonant circuit composed of a resonant switch and a resonant capacitor, a filter reactor, a filter capacitor, a snubber diode, a snubber capacitor, a load, first and second voltage sensors, a current sensor, and a controller for controlling gate pulses of semiconductor devices constituting a converter and the resonant switch and a signal for adjusting operation timings of A/D converters converting the signals of these sensors.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Mito Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Kojima, Yuichiro Nozaki, Masafumi Makino, Takeshi Shinomiya, Tetsu Sugiura
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Patent number: 8960996Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a mixing regime for use in the preparation of an animal feed in which a main computer is programmed to store a master list of ingredients which are available to farmers and from which a farmer can select a specific set of ingredients for the preparation of animal feed. The main computer is programmed to store the ingredients in a look-up table cross-referenced with standard mixing periods to which the respective ingredients should be subjected during the mixing regime to produce an animal feed. Additionally, the look-up table contains mixing factors by which the standard mixing periods may be altered in order to take account of non-standard conditions, such as variations of the ingredients, the proportion of the particular ingredient, the average size or weight of the animals and the mixing apparatus and condition thereof in which the animal feed is to be mixed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Salford Engineering LimitedInventors: Hugh McNab Kerr, John Joseph McCurdy, Jérôme Jean-Yves Eon, Seth Daniel Wareing, Timothy John Penfare
